Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society / Norman J.W. Thrower.

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Thrower, Norman J. W. (Norman Joseph William) [author.]

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Thrower, Norman J. W. Maps and man: an examination of cartography in relation to culture and civilization

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226799759
0226799751

Other title:

Maps and civilization
Cartography in culture and society

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maps & civilization.DDC classification:

526.09 22

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GA201 .T47 2008eb

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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 nineteenth century -- Modern cartography : official and quasi-official maps -- Modern cartography : private and institutional maps.

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Text in English.

An earlier edition of this work was published as Maps and Man: An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization, Prentice-Hall, 1972.