realize the imprint of his society and bureaucracy influence had placed upon him. Maps that have shaped both our geographical and human history have been products of power and influence by a dedicated few that audience entrusted. Because maps are statements of facts produced by neutral technologies, we have been accustomed to maps; they are natural objects.20
Figure. 4 Transit Dial with Magnetic Compass, from Bartoli, 1564 (courtesy: Houghton Library, Harvard University).
Figure. 3 Leonardo da Vinci. Plan and view of Milan. Codex Atlanticus, folio 199v, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.
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Figure. 5 Leonardo da Vinci. Odometers,ca. 1502. Codex Atlanticus, fol. Ir, (after U. Hoepli,ed.,Il Codice Atlantico di Leonardo da Vinci nella Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano [Milan,1894], I, tav. I).
Edney, Imago Mundi: Theory and the History of Cartography, 187.