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Auteur(s) : Garfield, Simon (1960-....)
Titre(s) : On the map [Texte imprimé] : why the world looks the way it does / Simon Garfield
Publication : London : Profile books, 2012
Description matérielle : 464 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: 1. What Great Minds Knew ; How the ancient Greeks
; Eratosthenes and Ptolemy ; first worked out the size and shape of the world and
our place upon it ; 2. The Men Who Sold the World ; The day Britain's greatest cartographic
treasure ; the medieval Mappa Mundi ; went to the auction houses to fix a leaky
roof ; It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are? ; 3. The World Takes Shape ; The world
centres on Jerusalem ; and the Poles appear ; Here Be Dragons ; 4. Venice, China
and a Trip to the Moon ; How the Italians became the world's greatest map makers,
and then the Germans, and then the Dutch. And how a Venetian friar discovered the
secrets of the East and ended up on the Moon ; 5. The Mystery of Vinland ; Did Norse
sailors really reach and map America before Columbus? Or is the world's most curious
map fakery's finest hour? ; 6. Welcome to Amerigo ; In which Ptolemy reappears in
Europe and America gets named after the wrong man.
Note(s) : Maps on endpapers. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448) and index
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Why the world looks the way it does
Sujet(s) : Cartographie -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781846685095 (hbk). - ISBN 1846685095 (hbk). - ISBN 9781847658555 (ebook). -
ISBN 1847658555 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43603456c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43603456
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