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Prosecution barrister Damian Warburton said the complete atlas had been worth about £50,000 and the map alone could fetch £6,000 on the black market.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The double hemisphere world map, known as Nova Orbis Tabula, was one of 12 in the atlas, and is studied by scholars around the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The resulting atlas revealed 539 chemically distinct territories, which the researchers named "lipizones."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The new atlas also uncovered surprising differences within parts of the brain that scientists previously considered relatively uniform.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Instead, he studied the map for a long moment, then replaced the atlas on the shelf.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
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
Eventually, the team envisions uLIPSTIC as a key tool in the effort to generate comprehensive atlases describing how cells interact to form tissue -- a key to the long-awaited interactome.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
“We shall have no more atlases covered in dust,” she said, in a voice so firm and resolute that, for once, the children found they had no choice but to do as they were told.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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