Arthur H. Robinson (January 5, 1915 – October 10, 2004) was an American geographer and cartographer, who was professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1947 until he retired in 1980. He was a prolific writer and influential philosopher on cartography, and one of his most notable accomplishments is the Robinson projection in 1961.
Famous quotes containing the words arthur and/or robinson:
“So let man consider of what he was created;
he was created of gushing water
issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.”
—Qur’An. The Night-Star, 86:5-7, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“But go, and if you listen she will call,
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
Luke Havergal.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)