Word: raisz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America's first textbook on cartography, written by Erwin Raisz, instructor in Cartography at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, went on public sale last week as it came off the presses of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City...
Born in Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest, Raisz received his doctor's degree at Columbia and has been associated with the Department of Geography for a number of years. His maps and illustrations in the University's various publications have made him well known around Cambridge...
...Copenhagen Congress Raisz exhibited the Geographical Institute's map of Liberia, which was surveyed by George V. Harley '34. On a scale of four miles to the inch, the map is the largest that has ever been made of this region...
Presentation before the National Geographical Congress at Amsterdam of a new physiographic method of showing landscape on maps and the exhibition before the Anthropological, Ethnographical and Archeological Congress at Copenhagen of the largest map of Liberia ever surveyed are a few of the matters which have occupied Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, during the past summer...
...Amsterdam Congress was attended by about 900 delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...