Seeing Maps of Sounds and Smells
by Rose Eveleth
Oct 08, 2013
2 minutes
orge Louis Borges once described . But the maps they had seen before were not precise enough. They had too much compression and approximation. There was too much inexactitude. And so the empire eventually made a map of the empire that was the size of the empire, and “coincided point for point with it.” But even this map, the size of the empire it described, could not
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