Arthur H. Robinson - Work

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Robinson was a prolific writer and influential philosopher on cartography:

  • In The Look of Maps (1952) which was based on his Doctoral research, Robinson urged cartographers to consider the function of a map as an integral part of the design process.
  • In the text In The Nature of Maps (1976), Robinson and co-author Barbara Bartz Petchenik created the term map percipient,a map user who interacts with a map in a discerning way and not merely as a casual observer. The authors stressed that ...the nature of the map as an image and the manner in which it functions as a communication device between the cartographer and percipient need much deeper consideration and analysis than they have yet received.
  • Robinson also co-authored a widely-used textbook, Elements of Cartography, the sixth and last edition of which was published in 1995.

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