Episode · a16z Podcast · 2017-09-16
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Exploding the Map
with Wei Luo, David Rumsey (@davidrumseymaps), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) In this episode, Wei Luo, founding COO of DeepMap -- who build HD maps for autonomous vehicles -- and David Rumsey, fo
David Rumsey discussed Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami OrtelI Antuerp. Geographi Regii..
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami OrtelI Antuerp. Geographi Regii.
Discussed“so the first atlas was published in 1570 by abraham ortelius and it was actually the best-selling book in Europe years and years and years”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I mean I used to be an art book publisher and one of my favorite books on the list at Princeton was the Barrington Atlas. Oh which is just a wonderful representation of what the world used to be”
“I mean you can imagine like a Barrington's atlas that you would literally be submerged into and it's almost too much to see patterns in this vast also read it just for human patterns”