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"Maps are to geography what notation is to music."

British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died #OTD in 1911.

In 1881, Williams's seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.

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