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Richard Martin-Nielsen

We went to last week and went to the
I love that museum.
Again I was struck by the mapping of epidemics. (I live near the Water tower in The Hague so I'm mindful of water treatment and cholera.)
I tried to take a photo of my favourite map, it hasn't come out well, but made a good write up with a decent image online in this:
leidenspecialcollectionsblog.n
(I like the 1867 map best.)

www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nlMapping epidemics: nineteenth-century cholera maps of LeidenIn the nineteenth century, cholera outbreaks struck several cities in the Netherlands. Mapmakers struggled to aggregate the complex data gathered about the disease into clear cartographic images, a problem cartographers struggle with even today.
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