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My favorite map in his collection is the 1838 "Atlas von Central Europa", a 1:500,000(!) scale map of the entirety of northwestern Europe.

[1] https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2...




If it's a map of northwestern Europe, why do they call it "central"?


The title is in a Germanic language, it is centered on their home.




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