WHERE PHILOSOPHERS WERE BORN
I'm afraid the map is not aligned to the North. It should be tilted anticlockwise by about 5 degrees, so that the point of the Hume arrow (Edinburgh) is directly above the point of the Locke arrow (Wrington, SW of Bristol). This makes Berkeley and Wolff virtually parallel. Note how the centre of gravity of philosophy moves gradually northwards (with the notable exceptions of Bacon and Hobbes).
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