The Science Museum of Map and Survey (地図と測量の科学館, Chizu to Sokuryō no Kagakukan?) is a museum in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan that is dedicated to mapping and surveying.
The museum was the first of its kind in Japan when it was opened by the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan in June 1996.
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“Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.”
—Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994)
“Always clung to by barnacles.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That open on their lives like crouching tombs
Break, O break open,”
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“When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.”
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