The History of Topographical Maps
Author | : P. D. A. Harvey |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. D. A. Harvey |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Barber |
Publisher | : British Library |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Over the past 2000 years, London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. London: A History in Maps illustrates and helps to explain the transformation using over 400 examples of maps. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official, but sanitized images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts--actual and envisaged--which perhaps present more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about the time when they were created. Peter Barber's book reveals the "inside story" behind one of the world's greatest cities.
Author | : Eliphalet Merrill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : New Hampshire |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew H. Edney |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 1803 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022633922X |
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.
Author | : Menno-Jan Kraak |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1317903110 |
This revised and updated edition integrates the latest in modern technology with traditional cartographic principles. While providing a solid conceptual foundation in cartographic methodology, the text also introduces the very latest advances that have greatly influenced cartographic techniques. The new edition reflects the increasing importance of cartography as the basis for further geographical study, the text has been updated throughout and chapters on the latest developments in cartography have been integrated. There is also a more widespread emphasis on multimedia and the web.
Author | : Duane W. Roller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316853152 |
Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.
Author | : Joseph Hillis Miller |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804723794 |
This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, but including also Plato and the Bible. Topics include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delineations can function as parable or allegory, and the relation of personification to landscape.
Author | : Christian Jacob |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2006-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226389537 |
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Author | : A. R. George |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789068314106 |
Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.