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Among the things offered by this book are: *The idea of mediated seeing - systems that intervene between the seer and the thing seen, allowing views not otherwise available. *Explanation of vertical orthogonal projection, by which the map-viewer is vertically above all points on the represented ground simultaneously. *Definition of a map: a map is a projectionally modified physical model of the surface-of-zero-elevation of a planet, with added apparitional modeling. *Explanation of apparitional modeling. *Differentiation of maps into topographical, and twelve kinds of thematic. *Explanation of visual metaphor as imagery by which things unseeable, e.g. temperature, are made seeable. *Application of the idea of homologue and analogue in explanation of various kinds of map imagery. *Definition of the subject of topographical maps as stopped-time subaerial landscape. *Definition of landscape. *A classification of landscape objects. *Definition of the subjects of thematic maps as localized processes of the universe. *Division of the signage of maps into signatures, three kinds of symbols, and typography. *Definition of "symbol" and "signature". *Methods of providing identity to features on maps: by mimesis, and several kinds of adjectival modifying. *Analysis of the visual structure of maps into 'layered' components. *Explanation of the optional transparency of cartographical surfaces. *Identification of the visual structure of maps with that of trompe-l'oeil art in which represented objects 'protrude' into the viewer's space. *Time and synchronicity on maps. * Definition and explanation of generalization. *A summary of relief representation. *The functions of color on maps: adjectival and graphic. *A description of the three-dimensional variations of holistic color, and a chart of systematic color gradations. *The idea of continuums, one- two- and three-dim