100 maps : the science, art and politics of cartography throughout history /

100 maps : the science, art and politics of cartography throughout history / edited by John O.E. Clark ; introduction by Jeremy Black.

Presents a chronological overview of the history of cartography, from the earliest maps of prehistory to the engraved maps of the seventeenth century and beyond. Includes illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Clark, John O. E., 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Sterling Pub., [2005]
Subjects:
Cartography > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by professor Jeremy Black
  • The choice of maps
  • pt. 1. The earliest maps. Ancient clay maps
  • The mapping of the dream time
  • The Nazca Enigma
  • Islamic guardians of knowledge
  • Chinese cartography
  • The nine worlds of the Norsemen
  • The music of the spheres
  • pt. 2. Cartographic breakthroughs. Ptolemy
  • The Peutinger table
  • Celestial charts
  • Saxton's Elizabethan England
  • Edmond Halley
  • Von Humboldt: German polymath
  • William Smith: a single map creates a new science
  • Maury: "pathfinder of the seas"
  • John Snow: the killer cholera
  • The city panorama map
  • Charles Booth: lies or damned lies?
  • Harry Beck's idea
  • Bollman: distorting to reveal the city
  • Surveying Venus
  • Mapping the tsunami
  • Invisible values, invisible live
  • pt. 3. The age of exploration. Portolan sea-charts
  • Columbus: the greatest navigational error in history
  • Apian's cosmographia
  • Gutierrez: the fourth part of the world
  • Ortelius brings the world to book
  • Kaerius
  • The Blaeu family
  • Frederick de Wit
  • John Smith and John White
  • The first accurate North American maps
  • The Chickasaw map
  • Japanese isolationism
  • Australia becomes an island continent
  • Lewis and Clark
  • The royal navy "conquers" Antarctica
  • pt. 4. Military maps
  • Da Vinci's new viewpoint
  • Hotchkiss: "make me a map of the valley"
  • The battle of the Modder river
  • Colenso
  • Thiepval sacrifice 1916
  • Passchendaele
  • Plan D in Belgium
  • Dunkirk
  • Defenses of Dover
  • Omaha beach
  • Warhol: cold war subversion
  • pt. 5. Drawing the line. The Anglo-French map wars
  • India: a triumph of trigonometry
  • Africa after the Berlin conference 1885
  • Transcontinental railroad: "done"
  • John F. Kennedy and Laos
  • Maps of Israel
  • pt. 5. Fantasies, follies, and fabrications. The lost continent of Atlantis
  • King Arthur and the Isle of Avalon
  • De Lahontan: new France or fake America?
  • Cabet: Utopia in Texas
  • Mocking national stereotypes
  • Propaganda maps
  • Tolkien's middle-earth
  • The Vinland map
  • Propaganda projections
  • The Pizzigano "new world" map.

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