Tech article

Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)

No preview is available. Read the original article for the full story.

Hacker News | Oct 17, 2026 | Thevet

Automated excerpt

The images here are separate prints from the Library of Congress, but they also can be found on the Internet Archive in book form, the title page of which credits the introduction and descriptive lines to a certain "Aleph", the alias of London surgeon and "frequent contributor to periodical literature" William Harvey. Although in the few recent mentions we can find of Geographical Fun Harvey is credited as the artist behind these wonderful maps, we wonder if this is really true. It’s a really exciting model, but we need your help to keep it thriving.

Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.

Read the original article

Read next

AI briefing: recent picks

More stories to explore