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\"Pandemic<\/p>\n

Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter project is the Pandemic Atlas<\/em><\/a>. The idea, he says, \u201cis to gather the most relevant information about the pandemics and major epidemics that have hit humanity throughout history to create an atlas in the visual style of my Minimal Geography project.\u201d In 130 pages, the Pandemic Atlas<\/em> explores major epidemics throughout history, and includes general chapters on heath subjects. The project\u2019s inception actually predates the COVID-19 pandemic; it was initally inspired by the 100th anniversary of the 1918 pandemic, but at the time there was not much interest in the topic. Fast forward today, when an atlas about historical pandemics is just a little too<\/em> topical.<\/p>\n

The Pandemic Atlas<\/em> Kickstarter<\/a> runs through 24 February (it\u2019s already met its goal). \u20ac20 gets you a digital copy of the atlas, \u20ac60 adds the hardcover.<\/p>\n

Previously: The Minimal Geography Atlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter project is the Pandemic Atlas. The idea, he says, \u201cis to gather the most relevant information about the pandemics and major epidemics that have hit humanity throughout history to create an… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,35],"tags":[30,917,228,1444,104,1445],"class_list":["post-1790014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","category-history","tag-books","tag-crowdfunding","tag-disease","tag-epidemics","tag-kickstarter","tag-pandemics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788783,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/library-of-congress-livestream-on-the-history-of-pandemic-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790014,"position":0},"title":"Library of Congress Livestream on the History of Pandemic Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Tomorrow (23 April 2020), the Library of Congress will be livestreaming No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19, in which John Hessler and Marie Arana will \u201cdiscuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1791600,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/a-project-to-restore-a-19th-century-treatise-on-hand-drawn-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790014,"position":1},"title":"A Project to Restore a 19th-Century Treatise on Hand-drawn Mapping","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 August 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"\u201cI have a new mapping project on Kickstarter,\u201d writes our friend Alejandro Polanco. \u201cThis time it is about recovering some exciting hand-drawn maps by a forgotten craftsman from the 19th century.\u201d This is Alejandro\u2019s second project to digitally recover a 19th-century illustrated book; this time his target is an 1890\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788446,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/history-of-epidemic-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790014,"position":2},"title":"History of Epidemic Mapping","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 February 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"CityLab\u2019s Marie Patino looks at some of the maps tracking the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and from there pivots to some of the ways we\u2019ve tracked disease outbreaks and epidemics in the past. 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