microcosm, atlas, Mercator Projection, cartographer, domesticated

Mention of China’s coast is more likely to conjure visions of warships in the South China Sea than sandcastles. But the population’s growing enthusiasm for the beach shows the changing relationship between state and society over the past 70 years: https://econ.st/3TvTR0U

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The president's spending plan is a microcosm of the larger election year messaging battle in Washington.

My husband is a domesticated man.

我丈夫是個顧家的人

---《巨流河》p.356... his book The Domestication of the Savage Mind (1977). Another field in which Goody has used his talent for comparison is the history of inheritance and the family. His most famous contribution in this area is The Development of the ..."

domesticate
tr.v., -cat·ed, -cat·ing, -cates.

1. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.
2. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.
3. 1. To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.
   2. To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.
4. To bring down to the level of the ordinary person.

n. (-kət, -kāt')

A plant or animal that has been adapted to live in a human environment.

domestication do·mes'ti·ca'tion n.

do・mes・ti・cate

━━ vt. 飼い慣らす （tame）; （移民・外来種の動植物を）土地に慣らす; 家庭［家事］に親しませる.
do・mes・ti・ca・tion　n.

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Poverty atlas shows huge social divide in Germany

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The number of people living below the poverty line is on the rise in Germany

A new study by a German welfare organization shows that the gap between rich and poor is widening in the country, with the east and northwest lagging clearly behind the south.

TAKU HOSOKAWA, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2009/4/11

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Looking down on Japan in the Edo Period(TAKU HOSOKAWA/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

A huge floor reproduction of a map of Japan created by Ino Tadataka (1745-1818), who surveyed the archipelago in the Edo Period (1603-1867), is on temporary public display at the Fukagawa Sports Center in Tokyo's Koto Ward, where Ino spent the last years of his life, through Sunday. Based on Ino's "Dai Nihon Enkai Yochi Zenzu・(Complete compilation of maps of Japan), the huge map, in color and printed on panels, is on a scale of 1:36,000. Although the cartographer's original drawings were lost long ago in a fire, a research group created this map from a few remaining copies of his works.

Vermeer compresses a whole world into the cool, lucid, quietly domesticated rooms he painted; his flat rectangles of canvas somehow square the circle and stretch to the round edges of imagined space. Mirrors on the walls multiply observed reality, windows open on to an exterior we cannot see and the curved surfaces of a wine glass or a water pitcher reflect objects outside the painting's proper scope. If you look at it closely enough, the earring worn by one of his subjects turns into a microcosm: a pearl, like the Earth explored and exploited by 17th-century cartographers and merchants, is a globe.

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The Mercator Projection is a way of showing the earth on a flat map. With the equator at its center, the spacing of parallels of latitude increases with the distance from the equator, so areas closer to the poles are shown in a disproportionately greater size. The Mercator Projection is named for its creator, Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish cartographer who was born on this date in 1512. Mercator was the first mapmaker to divide America into two separate continents, naming them "Americae pars septentrionalis" (northern part of America) and "Americae pars meridionalis" (southern part of America).

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"'What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?' So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply 'They are merely conventional signs!'" — Lewis Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark"

Atlas, in modern usage, most commonly refers to a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form.

Atlas may also refer to:

Greek mythology

• Atlas (mythology), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders
• Atlas, the first king of Atlantis

n. - 地圖集, 圖解集

2.
n. - 巨神阿特拉斯, 身負重擔的人

For other uses of "atlas", see Atlas (disambiguation).



If you travel, take a road atlas along.

Columbia Encyclopedia: atlas,

in geography, collection of maps or charts. It usually includes data on various features of a country, e.g., its topography, natural resources, climate, and population, as well as its agriculture and main industries. In astronomy, a star atlas is a collection of maps or photographs covering much or all of the celestial sphere and showing the locations of stars and other objects. Although the first known atlas was compiled by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2d cent. A.D., its modern form was introduced in 1570 with the publication of Theatrum orbis terrarum by the Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius. In 1595 his close friend Gerardus Mercator published Atlas sive cosmographicae. Its frontispiece was a figure of the titan Atlas holding a globe on his shoulders. The name Atlas subsequently came to be applied to volumes of maps and information in this format.

cartographer

変化《複》cartographers

━━ n. 地図製作者.
⇒cartography

「EXCEED英和辞典」

• 名 地図製作者｛ちず せいさくしゃ｝

• Mercator
• 【人名】 メルカトル
• Mercator chart
• メルカトル地図 ｛ちず｝
• Mercator projection
• メルカトル図法 ｛ずほう｝
• Mercator sailing
• メルカトル航法 ｛こうほう｝
• Mercator track
• 《船》航程線 ｛こうていせん｝ ◆【同】 rhumb line

at・las

━━ n. 地図帖; 【ギリシア神話】（A-） アトラス ((天を肩に担う巨人)); 【解】環椎, 第一頚椎.

domesticated

adj

Definition: naturalized
Antonyms: cultivated

adj

Definition: tame
Antonyms: wild

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a little world; especially : the human race or human nature seen as an epitome of the world or the universe. 2. : a community or other unity that is an epitome of a ...