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atlas

[at-luhs] / ˈæt ləs /






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Melvin West, 70, sliced the map from a 1684 atlas by Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit while viewing it at the Caird Library, part of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, in February 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The court heard West, from Chingford in east London, had viewed the atlas on 19 and 20 December 2024 and again on the day before the theft.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Beyond identifying the brain's chemical structure, the atlas offered new insight into how that structure changes during pregnancy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

For the Cell study published on September 24, Mount Sinai scientists combined existing datasets to build a single cell transcriptomic atlas of blood vessels in the human brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

He had to look those places up in his atlas when he got home, and soon realized that he needed a better atlas.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

The researchers will release their brain atlases as open-source references and provide the multi-tier mapping approach as an out-of-the-box package.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

It has produced draft atlases of the brain and lung and researchers are working on the kidney, liver and heart.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl


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