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History Of Cartography
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Author : Leo Bagrow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
History Of Cartography written by Leo Bagrow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content, or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map, it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared, finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates, the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates, thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps, collated with other materials, help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain, specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical, artistic, and cultural significance, and thus collecting them seems to need no justification, simply enjoyment.
The New Nature Of Maps
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Author : J. B. Harley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-10-03
The New Nature Of Maps written by J. B. Harley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-03 with History categories.
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Guide To The History Of Cartography
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Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
language : en
Publisher: Library of Congress
Release Date : 1973
Guide To The History Of Cartography written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and has been published by Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Reference categories.
The History Of Cartography
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Author : John Brian Harley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The History Of Cartography written by John Brian Harley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Cartography categories.
When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.--Amazon.com.
Guide To The History Of Cartography
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Author : W. W. Ristow
language : en
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Release Date : 1997-03
Guide To The History Of Cartography written by W. W. Ristow and has been published by Oak Knoll Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03 with categories.
The History Of Cartography Volume 4
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-05-15
The History Of Cartography Volume 4 written by Matthew H. Edney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Science categories.
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
Early Thematic Mapping In The History Of Cartography
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Author : Arthur Howard Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Early Thematic Mapping In The History Of Cartography written by Arthur Howard Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Science categories.
Discusses the influences of scientific and cartographic innovations on the development of maps portraying special subjects such as population, vegetation, and ocean currents
The History Of Cartography Cartography In Prehistoric Ancient And Medieval Europe And The Mediterranean
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Author : John Brian Harley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The History Of Cartography Cartography In Prehistoric Ancient And Medieval Europe And The Mediterranean written by John Brian Harley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Cartography categories.
By developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term "map" ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the History of Cartography series has helped redefine the way maps are studied and understood by scholars in a number of disciplines. Volume One addresses the prehistorical and historical mapping traditions of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean world. A substantial introductory essay surveys the historiography and theoretical development of the history of cartography and situates the work of the multi-volume series within this scholarly tradition. Cartographic themes include an emphasis on the spatial-cognitive abilities of Europe's prehistoric peoples and their transmission of cartographic concepts through media such as rock art; the emphasis on mensuration, land surveys, and architectural plans in the cartography of Ancient Egypt and the Near East; the emergence of both theoretical and practical cartographic knowledge in the Greco-Roman world; and the parallel existence of diverse mapping traditions (mappaemundi, portolan charts, local and regional cartography) in the Medieval period. Throughout the volume, a commitment to include cosmographical and celestial maps underscores the inclusive definition of "map" and sets the tone for the breadth of scholarship found in later volumes of the series.
Who S Who In The History Of Cartography
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Author : Mary Alice Lowenthal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Who S Who In The History Of Cartography written by Mary Alice Lowenthal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Cartographers categories.
Mapping The World
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Author : Ralph E. Ehrenberg
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Release Date : 2006
Mapping The World written by Ralph E. Ehrenberg and has been published by National Geographic Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.