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Life is not a framed map. But it seems that people easily forget this, when history becomes a finished storyprior to conquest.
There is an anecdote from the 18th century when Europeans were sailing to all corners of the earth as explorers, and later (or simultaneously) as colonizers. One day in 1787, La Prouse, a French admiral of the fleet, arrived in China aftersailing around the Pacific Ocean for a hundred days. You could call it a scientific expedition: La Prouse took with him 10 scientists. They wanted to map the coast of Sakhalin Island.
December 15, 2015
Life is not a framed map. But it seems that people easily forget this, when history becomes a finished storyprior to conquest.
There is an anecdote from the 18th century when Europeans were sailing to all corners of the earth as explorers, and later (or simultaneously) as colonizers. One day in 1787, La Prouse, a French admiral of the fleet, arrived in China aftersailing around the Pacific Ocean for a hundred days. You could call it a scientific e
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