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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Norman Joseph William Thrower |
ISBN: | 0226799735 9780226799735 |
OCLC Number: | 1088010201 |
Description: | XIII, 326 p. ill. 23 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Norman J. W. Thrower. |
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