Exploring the World Through Cartography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the World Through Cartography write by Classical Conversations MultiMedia. This book was released on 2017-06-28. Exploring the World Through Cartography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Map: Assembling the World in An Image
Map: Assembling the World in An Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Map: Assembling the World in An Image write by Phaidon Editors. This book was released on 2015-09-28. Map: Assembling the World in An Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth. Easy-to-use format, with large reproductions, authoritative texts and key caption information, it is the perfect introduction to the subject. Also features a comprehensive illustrated timeline of the history of cartography, biographies of leading cartographers and a glossary of cartographic terms.
Mapping the World
Mapping the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the World write by Ralph E. Ehrenberg. This book was released on 2006. Mapping the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
On the Map
On the Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Map write by Simon Garfield. This book was released on 2013-11-05. On the Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
Map Worlds
Map Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Map Worlds write by Will C. van den Hoonaard. This book was released on 2013-09-21. Map Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal “text” of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.
