[PDF] Discovering Maps eBook

Author : Francisca Matteoli
Publisher : Ilex Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781573778

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Through this magnificent collection of historical maps, travel writer Francisca Mattéoli takes us on a geographical adventure, telling the stories of twenty places and voyages that inspired her and the creation of these fascinating charts. Discover some of the world's most magical places and how they revealed themselves, from the lost trails of the first colonies of the American West to Amundsen's exploration of the South Pole, and the rediscoveries of Petra and Angkor Wat. This unexpected volume will let the curious mind roam the contours of the planet, and discover how the world we know today was made, and un-made.

Author : Michael Anthony DiSpezio
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2003-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781402705991

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Learning geography will always be fun with the special tricks you'll learn here. Starting from familiar territory (home, backyard, schoolyard) and moving outwards, this amusing, delightfully illustrated introduction to maps and more teaches street smarts to kids. Filled to the brim with fun games, cool activities, humorous quizzes, and wacky facts, every page turns basic geography into an adventure. Build a model of an early compass to understand navigation--then head out to test your skills. Use the sun, moon, and the stars to get your bearings. Look at a map similar to the one Columbus might have used when he set out to prove the world was round. Hit the road with "a key to the highway" that provides information on tolls, the number of lanes, and other details. Figure out which route goes where. All in all, you'll have a delightful trip--and end up just where you want to be!

Author : Phaidon Editors
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714869445

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300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth. Easy-to-use format, with large reproductions, authoritative texts and key caption information, it is the perfect introduction to the subject. Also features a comprehensive illustrated timeline of the history of cartography, biographies of leading cartographers and a glossary of cartographic terms.

Author : Kären Wigen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 022671862X

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Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.

Author : Arlene Phillips
Publisher : Rainbow Horizons Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1553196384

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Introduce the salient concepts to beginners that reinforce skills in working with maps and globes. Designed for students with differentiated learning levels; including children who have had no experience in formal map & globe skills often experience difficulties when faced with geography as a subject at an intermediate level. The material in this package may be of benefit to children in junior and early intermediate grades as well. The activities are designed with participation in mind encouraging a variety of group sizes (whole class, small group, individual). The activities are sequentially arranged to cover the following topics: symbols, direction, kinds and uses of maps, scale and terminology. The activities are suggestions and may be modified or expanded where needed. Get creative and have fun teaching your students about maps & globes!

Author : Frédéric Durand
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9671061737

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Maps of Malaya and Borneo: Discovery, Statehood and Progress showcases the extensive map collections of His Royal Highness Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Sultan of Selangor, and Richard Curtis. The combined collections contain more than 160 maps dating from the 1500s to after Malaysia's formation in 1963. The collections include early Portuguese, Dutch, French and English maps, nautical charts, maps of the interior, maps from atlases and encyclopaedias, maps showing economy, culture and communications and urban maps. Extensive captions highlight key features of the maps, provide insights into their creators and explain the context in which the maps were produced and used. The presentation of the collections is preceded by an authoritative text on the mapping of Malaya and Borneo over the last 1,800 years. This text explains the quest for accurate maps; illustrates how maps showcased the changing economic, cultural and political dynamics within Malaya and Borneo; and describes the evolution of mapping techniques as well as providing insights into the work of leading cartographers.

Author : Hammond World Atlas Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780843713886

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An atlas introducing basic map skills through maps ranging from the Adriatic Sea to Zimbabwe.

Author : Yossef Rapoport
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 022655340X

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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.