Thursday, September 30, 2004

C-money back!

after several days at a conference in heidelberg.. and she bought me this great map!:





by Gerard Mercator (yes, THE mercator) in 1651. Its a beautiful hand colored map of the Savoie.

Posted by max at 5:18 AM

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