On Exactitude In Science
Jorge-luis-borges & Andrew Hurley (writer)
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On Exactitude In Science by Jorge Luis Borges (Ft. Andrew Hurley (writer))
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Translated into English by Andrew Hurley, the original Spanish title is Del rigor en la ciencia. Some English translations prefer “On Rigor In Science.” The story was first published in March 1946, in the journal Los Anales de Buenos Aires, año 1, no. 3, where it formed part of a piece called “Museo...
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. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
—Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
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Jorge-luis-borges released On Exactitude In Science on Tue Jan 01 1946.