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Most scientific cartography is concerned with the dissemination of spatial knowledge.

Arthur H. Robinson
The development of design principles based on objective visual tests, experience, and logic; the pursuit of research in the physiological and psychological effects of color; and investigations in perceptibility and readability in typography are being carried on in other fields... such a movement in cartography cannot fail to materialize

Arthur H. Robinson
The assumption that effective cartographic technique and its evaluation is based in part on some subjective artistic or aesthetic sense on the part of the cartographer and map reader is somewhat disconcerting. For example, E. Raisz claims that the effective use of lines or colors requires artistic judgment, and J. K. Wright explains that the suitability of a symbol depends on the map maker's taste and sense of harmony. Throughout the literature there are numerous similar assertions regarding the assumed subjective aesthetic and artistic content of cartography.

Arthur H. Robinson
The author took the only course in cartography available to him in 1937; it must have been fairly typical of the few being offered in America: lectures based largely on personal experiences were supplemented by a relatively few assigned readings, and by Deetz and Adam's Elements of Map Projection. No textbook was used because there was none in English.

Arthur H. Robinson