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Author : Map Collectors' Circle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Map Collectors' Series written by Map Collectors' Circle and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara B. McCorkle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Index to Map Collectors' Circle written by Barbara B. McCorkle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Map Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Vere Tooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tooley's Handbook for Map Collectors written by Ronald Vere Tooley and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Map Collectors' Circle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book Map Collectors' Series written by Map Collectors' Circle and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843313182
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
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Publisher : Kunstpedia Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9081654217
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)
Download or read book My Head Is A Map written by and published by Kunstpedia Foundation. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asaf Nachmias
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030279685
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing written by Asaf Nachmias and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is to present a self-contained proof that the uniform infinite planar triangulation (UIPT) is almost surely recurrent. Full proofs of all statements are provided. A planar map is a graph that can be drawn in the plane without crossing edges, together with a specification of the cyclic ordering of the edges incident to each vertex. One widely applicable method of drawing planar graphs is given by Koebe’s circle packing theorem (1936). Various geometric properties of these drawings, such as existence of accumulation points and bounds on the radii, encode important probabilistic information, such as the recurrence/transience of simple random walks and connectivity of the uniform spanning forest. This deep connection is especially fruitful to the study of random planar maps. The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mathematics and is suitable for a single-semester course; only a basic knowledge of graduate level probability theory is assumed.
Author : Elizabeth Baigent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135012799X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Geographers written by Elizabeth Baigent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial's history, the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers, amply demonstrating how these scholars' professional lives enrich the discipline's history. It also illustrates how reading and writing their biographies not only expands our understanding of geography's past, but points to its more diverse future. The collection includes biographies of Doreen Massey, winner of geography's 'Nobel prize', the prix Vautrin-Lud, for her remarkable contribution to geography and neighbouring disciplines which discovered the importance of space through her work; Helen Wallis, geographer and historian of cartography who for many years had charge of the UK's foremost collection of maps; Alice Saunier-Seïté, who applied her geographical training and formidable energy to teaching and educational reform in France; Isabel Margarida André, who lived through a turbulent political period in her native Portugal and meticulously investigated its effect on women and political geography; and the many women who helped to create the UK's first Geography department - the University of Oxford's, School of Geography - including Fanny Herbertson, Nora MacMunn, Marjorie Sweeting, Mary Marshall, Barbara Kennedy and other women geographers who are memorialised in a group article.
Author : Holger Weiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110670712
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Locating the Global written by Holger Weiss and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks, borders, and territory are worked out at a local level. The material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world, Africa, and Australia and ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It is further divided into sections that address topics such as the translocality of humans and goods, local articulations of identities and globalities, parliamentarism and anti-colonialism, the organization of knowledge and the construction of spaces of representation and memory.
Author : Norman Joseph William Thrower
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226799735
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Maps & Civilization written by Norman Joseph William Thrower and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Peter Barber
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278091
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Author : Katarzyna Lecky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571761
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance written by Katarzyna Lecky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622733460
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Canada before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the maps featured in this book was showcased in the exhibition “Canada before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping,” which took place in several locations, both in Canada and abroad, in Fall of 2017. The authors provide a scholarly study highlighting the importance and unique features of each of these jewels of cartographic history, with particular attention paid to how they demonstrate the development of Canadian identity at the same time that they reveal Indigenous knowledge of the lands now known as Canada.
Author : Adrian Seville
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004681140
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Playing with Maps: Cartographic Games in Western Culture written by Adrian Seville and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps. The authors are experts in their respective fields: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles. They bring an informed historical approach to the development and diffusion of these games up to about the beginning of the twentieth century, including games from Western Europe and America in all their intriguing variety. This book is an essential reference source for those wishing to research this neglected area, while those new to the field will be pleasantly surprised at the interesting and unusual maps that these games exploit.
Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615212X
Total Pages : 1941 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The History of Cartography, Volume 6 written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society—and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.
Author : Junia Ferreira Furtado
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004710760
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book L'Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century written by Junia Ferreira Furtado and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the origins of Brazil’s modern borders can be traced to the cartography of the Americas produced by the eighteenth-century French cartographer J.B.B. d’Anville. It argues that this map reflects the geopolitical policies of the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha, who was involved in Portugal’s negotiations with the Spanish to formally establish Brazil’s frontiers, and highlights how and why these policies were adopted in the Treaty of Madrid in 1750.
