... a dialogue between words and images. They are most likely to be useful and instructive in the future if this partnership is acknowledged and deliberately developed. The alliance of map and letterpress is found as early as the sixteenth century. It probably resulted from the mainly verbal nature of geography...

...” (Graben), has been known since at least the sixteenth century, but it was not charted until about 1717, when J. G. Vetter showed it in some detail as part of a map of the district 195 of Nuremberg. A more evocative map was provided a few years later by the Jesuit historian of France Gabriel...