Identifier: mapmodelingingeo00malt (find matches)
Title: Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Maltby, Albert Elias, 1850-1924
Subjects: Block diagrams
Publisher: New York : E.L. Kellogg & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ss-hatching should notbe employed in shading in cases where chalk, charcoal, or thestump will give a shade of better quality in less time. Economy in labor, wherever it is not artistically an evil, shouldbe observed. Get a few sketches by good artists, and notice howin their work these men give rapidity of execution, not by hurry-ing the hand, but by adopting the most summary means of ex-pression. The natural world presents itself to the eye as aseries of patches or spaces full of gradations of light and shadeand color, but having no real lines. Not that the teacher will not find it useful at times to use thatpurity and firmness of outline which is a characteristic of the bestGreek art, Avhile at the same time it is the style which a childnaturally adopts in his own first efforts ; but in making sketches,in general, the teacher should aim to see and represent the largemasses of light and shade, and thus to convey impressions andideas rapidly and accurately. Illustrative Sketching. 151
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Fig. 64.—The Geyser, 152 Historical Maps. MAP MODELING IN HISTORY. Map modeling in connection with the work in history hasconsiderable educational value, since everything that tends tomake clear the geographical relation between various nationswill aid in the understanding of their history. The most naturalassociation is that ot time and place, and all the points that tendto fix the place in memory will tend to impress the time relationin a corresponding degree. The imagination is of course thefaculty to which the strongest appeals must be made ; but as wemodel the coast-line of Greece in our study of the history of thatcountry, we shall find that the peculiar charm of an intimateblending of land and sea could not fail to make navigators of theGreeks. It incited them to active commercial intercourse withother nations. The connection between the physical characterof a country and the history of its people is most intimate. As we take up the individual events of history, an accuratekn

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