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Old Road Maps [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1920
THE reference in NATURE of September 16, p. 90, to John Cary's old road map prompts me to send particulars of an old and rare book, “A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller: Being a Compleat Survey and Admeasurement of all the principal Roads and most considerable cross Roads in England and Wales” by Thomas Gardner, 1719.
openaire   +1 more source

Cartographic image of Samogitia in the old maps of Lithuania, Poland and other neighboring countries (1700–1939)

open access: yesGeodesy and Cartography, 2014
While continuing researches on ancient cartography (Lukoševičius 2014) the publication is aimed at viewing maps of Samogitia in the perspective of historical events, with a special emphasis on most important historical events as well as cartography ...
Viktoras Lukoševičius
doaj   +1 more source

Real-Time Water Vapor Maps from a GPS Surface Network: Construction, Validation, and Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper the construction of real-time integrated water vapor (IWV) maps from a surface network of global positioning system (GPS) receivers is presented.
Haan, S., de   +2 more
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The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2018
The town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest ...
Mirko Grčić   +2 more
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Old Irish Maps [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1920
THE fact that I have been able to refer your reviewer to an important map with which he was previously unacquainted is some compensation for the necessity for his last sentence (NATURE, October 7, p. 180).
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Lithuanian railways marked on old maps / Lietuvos geležinkeliai senuosiuose žemėlapiuose Lithuanian railways marked on old maps

open access: yesGeodesy and Cartography, 2012
This paper researches the representation of Lithuanian railways as a geographical object on old maps. It highlights the most significant stages of development of wide and narrow gauge railways and that of cartography in the background of historical ...
Viktoras Lukoševičius
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial visualization of quantitative landscape changes in an industrial region between 1827 and 1883. Case study Katowice, southern Poland

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2020
The aim of the study is to present landscape changes in the nineteenth century in the central part of the Upper Silesian Industrial District, which is the municipality of Katowice (southern Poland).
Paweł Cybulski   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two-dimensional Yang-Mills Theories Are String Theories

open access: yes, 1993
We show that two-dimensional SO(N) and Sp(N) Yang-Mills theories without fermions can be interpreted as closed string theories. The terms in the 1/N expansion of the partition function on an orientable or nonorientable manifold M can be associated with ...
Naculich, S. G.   +2 more
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The extended structure of the dwarf irregular galaxy Sagittarius [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We present a detailed study of the stellar and HI structure of the dwarf irregular galaxy Sagittarius. We use new deep and wide field photometry to trace the surface brightness profile of the galaxy out to ~5.0' (corresponding to ~1600 pc) and down to ...
Battaglia, G.   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

Dwarf spheroidals in the M81 Group - Metallicity distribution functions and population gradients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We study the dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the nearby M81 group in order to construct their photometric metallicity distributions and to investigate the potential presence of population gradients.
A. Koch   +69 more
core   +1 more source

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