Maps are Territories
Subtitle: Science is an Atlas
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 16, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780226817057
Subjects: Anthropology; Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); Cartography; Science; Reference; Science/Mathematics; Atlases - General; Earth Sciences - Geography; Science / Geography; Australia; Maps; Philosophy
First sentence: In these two passages Michael Polanyi and Thomas S. Kuhn equate theories with maps, and they take it for granted that the metaphor is self-explanatory.