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1. Affective Cartography

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   Historical Antecedents
   The philosophical grounding for mapping internal states onto external space can be traced to early 19th-century theories of Geopsychic Resonance, popularized by German Idealists who posited that tectonic activity directly influenced human temperament (Fischer, 1841). However, the practical instantiation of Affective Cartography is generally dated to 1874. It was in this year that the obscure Swiss surveyor, Dr. Hans Kläg's, presented his initi…

2. Affective Cartography

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   The Sentimental Barometer and its Successors
   Kläg's original device operated on the principle that collective unease caused minute thermal variations in the ambient air, which were then translated into measurable altitude shifts on a calibrated, mercury-filled scale. This device required daily re-calibration against a fixed baseline of 'Neutral Provincial Contentment (NPC)',' typically established using a sample population of civil servants residing near high-altitude [mountai…