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Cartography
Cartography is the science and art of making maps. Portuguese navigators of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries greatly expanded European geographical knowledge and charts of Africa and Asia. Dutch cartography, centred on Amsterdam, advanced substantially through the demands of managing the global trade of the Dutch Empire.
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