Christiane Gonod [updated] (DIRECT × BUNDLE)

For those interested in the technical history of cartography, Gonod’s workflow is a marvel of analog data processing:

Christiane Gonod died without widespread public recognition. Yet her fingerprints are everywhere. Every time you use a library database with filters (date, author, subject, keyword), you are using a descendant of Gonod’s "Fichier Central." Every time you perform a complex Google search using quotes, minus signs, or OR , you are executing Boolean logic—the very logic she worked to make accessible to non-specialists. christiane gonod