Modern digital techniques have the potential to greatly simplify the analysis and visualization of geometric properties of historical maps. This paper first outlines the purpose and goals of an analysis of a historical map’s planimetric accuracy, and identifies possible sources for geometrical imprecision. It then treats important considerations that the map historian should keep in mind, when ...

ERNA LESKY (editor), A system of complete medical police. Selectionsfrom Johann Peter Frank, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 469, £24.00. J. P. Frank (1745-1821) of Vienna is renowned for his 6,262 page System einer vollstandigen medicinischen Polizey. It has never been translated into English and this is the first extensive selection from i...