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- Jul 30, 2023
- Radu Leca
Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter
When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions
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