Sentence examples for most influential map from inspiring English sources

Just three or so years later, the Lorraine map-maker Martin Waldseemüller would publish what is arguably the most influential map in history: not only does it accurately depict the shape of Africa, but a thin sliver of land in the western sea is named, for the first time, "America".

By reproducing the most influential maps of the geographical theorists, which show North America with huge inland seas, vast peninsulas and wide channels, Williams demonstrates the extent of the fantasies with which the navigators had to contend.

The most influential was Matteo Ricci, whose "Map of the Myriad Countries of the World" upended traditional geography throughout East Asia and whose work with the convert Xu Guangqi led to the first Chinese translation of Euclid's Elements in 1607.

First, I.B.M.'s case: By mapping the most influential participants in online conversations about shoes, the company was then able to eavesdrop on a dozen key bloggers.

It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map.

Around the Country: The Power of 'Zoo Poo' One map shows the most influential media outlets by state while another reveals how much wind states are generating.

Lazarsfeld also studied how political opinions flowed through friendship circles; he would ask a group of friends to identify the most influential members of their group, then map out how a political view or support for a candidate spread through and around those individuals.

The "cognitive map" hypothesis (O'Keefe and Nadel, 1978) is one of the most influential models of rodent hippocampal function.

MaxEnt picked out the annual temperature range (Bio 7) as the most influential variable describing leopard cat distribution while maps of each climatic variable showed maximum summer temperatures to be highly correlated to distribution limits.

This allows visual representations in 2- dimensional plots (also known as "CA maps") that capture the most influential trends that define the compositional bias.

"Walter Ristow may be accounted one of the most influential figures — perhaps the most influential figure — in map librarianship in the United States, and he has won the highest international standing in his field," Helen Wallis, the map librarian at the British Library, wrote in 1979.