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John Noble Wilford
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An edition of The mapmakers (1981)

The mapmakers

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A comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has succeeded in mapping the globe, moon and the planets.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
507

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Subjects
Cartographers, Cartography, History, Cartographie, Geschichte, Kartographie, Cartografie, Histoire, nd index, Cartography -- History, Cartography, history

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Cover of: The mapmakers
The mapmakers: the story of the great pioneers in cartography - from antiquity to the space age
2002, Pimlico
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The mapmakers
2001, Vintage Books
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The Mapmakers: Revised Edition
December 4, 2001, Vintage
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The mapmakers
2000, A.A. Knopf
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The mapmakers
1982, Vintage Books
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The mapmakers
1981, Knopf
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The mapmakers
1981, Junction
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Table of Contents

The map idea
The librarian who measured Earth
First principles by Ptolemy
The topography of myth and dogma
1492
Mercator squares the circle
The matter of a degree
The family that mapped France
John Harrison's timepiece
Surveyors of sea and shore
Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey
Mapping America : the boundary makers
Mapping America : westward the topographers
Meters, meridians, and a new world map
The winged mappers
Radar over the Amazon
Deep horizon
A continent beneath the ice
Mountains of the sea
Base lines across a continent
Geodesy from space
Mapping from space
Dynamic maps : a new geography
Extraterrestrial mapping : the Moon
Extraterrestrial mapping : Mars
Cosmic cartographers.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1981. Rev. ed. published in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-491) and index.

Classifications

Library of Congress
GA105.3 .W49 2001, GA105.3.W49 2000

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Pagination
xi, 507 p. :
Number of pages
507

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OL23242336M
ISBN 10
0375708502, 0375409297
ISBN 13
9780375708503
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49804
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