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The Mapmakers, revised edition / Jonh Noble Wilford (2001)

Public Titre : The Mapmakers, revised edition Type de document : Monographie Auteurs : Jonh Noble Wilford, Auteur Editeur : New York : Vintage Books Année de publication : 2001 Importance : 508 p. Format : 13 x 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-375-70850-3 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Cartographie [Termes IGN] cartographe [Termes IGN] cartographie ancienne [Termes IGN] évolution technologique [Termes IGN] géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] histoire de la cartographie [Termes IGN] Lune [Termes IGN] Mars (planète) Index. décimale : 39.00 Cartographie - généralités - Cartologie Résumé : (Editeur) In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. With this revised edition, Wilford brings the story up to the present day, as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers-including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West-whose exploits shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity. Note de contenu : PART ONE : PROLOGUE AT DANA BUTTE - The map idea - The librarian who measured earth - First principles by Ptolemy - The topography of Myth and Dogma - 1492 - Mercator squares the circle PART TWO : YAKI POINT - 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 bundary makers - Mapping America: Westward the topographers - Meters, meridians, and a new world map PART THREE : BRIGHT ANGEL POINT - The winged mappers - Radar over the Amazon - Deep horizons - A continent beneath the ice - Mountains of the sea - Base lines across a continent PART FOUR : THE FLIGHT OUT - Geodesy from space - Mapping from space - Dynamic maps: a new geography - Extraterrestrial mapping: the moon - Extraterrestrial mapping: mars - Cosmic cartographers EPILOGUE AT BRIGHT ANGEL Numéro de notice : 20646 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Monographie Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=63098

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