Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society
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Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society
University of Chicago Press, 1999
2nd ed
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Maps and civilization
Available at 12 libraries
Note
"Published 1996. Second edition published 1999"--Verso of t.p.
"An earlier edition of this work was published as Maps and man: an examination of cartography in relation to culture and civilization, Prentice-Hall, 1972"--Verso of t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This introduction to the history of cartography charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the end of the 20th century. It includes the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminating the ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - maps of preliterate peoples
- maps of classical antiquity
- early maps of East and South Asia
- cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages
- the rediscovery of Ptolemy and cartography in Renaissance Europe
- cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- diversification and development in the 19th century
- modern cartography - official and quasi-official maps
- modern cartography - private and institutional maps. Appendices: selected map projections
- short list of isograms.
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