Mathematical Geography, Cartography
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Mapping Nature Across the AmericasMaps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with...
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Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital EraMaps 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...
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Mapping EnglandMapping England shows, through a series of compelling maps, both historic and contemporary, how England has scrutinised itself, been seen by others and how it has recorded its ever-changing circumstances. England has been continuously mapped from Medieval times to the present; politically, administratively and...
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Why North Is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came fromMany people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and help users to understand it?...
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OMAN's ATLAS OF THE PENINSULAR WAR: A Complete Colour Assembly of all Maps & Plans from Sir Charles Oman's History of the Peninsular WarA full assembly, of all 98 colour maps and plans (+ 7 in B&W) from Sir Charles Oman's History of the Peninsular War. The maps are in chronological in order and include the famous such as "Ciudad Rodrigo" & "Badajoz" and the not so...
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Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American WestPublished to coincide with an exhibition at Chicago's Newberry Library, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West charts the historic role maps have played in imagining, understanding, promoting, and exploiting the Western frontier of North America. Featuring more than sixty full-color maps and...
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Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century MexicoAntonio Garc a Cubas's Carta general of 1857, the first published map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the country's geographic coordinates in precise detail. The respected geographer and cartographer made mapping Mexico his life's work. Combining insights from the history of cartography and...
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Charting the OceansMastery of the sea has been crucial in world history: the transition from the medieval to the modern world was marked by the emergence of ships from their European home waters out into the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Solving the problem of ocean...
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Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color EditionOn October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound thousands of puzzlers for more than a century. This is the amazing story...
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A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 MapsThe twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and...
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Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty...
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Some Transformations of the Complex Plane Corresponding to a Rotation of the Sphere in Stereographic ProjectionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Manual of Land Surveying, With TablesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific WestPadrón reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as...
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Elementary Surveying and Map ProjectionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR France and Belgium ATLASA full assembly of the valuable colour and black and white maps that were bound into the celebrated OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR and now are extracted to form this Atlas.From the opening hostilities of 1914 with the German Offensive in Belgium and...
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History of the Second World War: The War Against Japan 1941-1945 ATLASA full assembly of all 223 maps and sketches from UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN.These official maps will help unravel the complexities of a difficult war that saw the Allies pitted against Japan. The British Empire waged...
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Map Projections: A Working Manual (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395)After decades of using only one map projection, the Polyconic, for its mapping program, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) now uses several of the more common projections for its published maps. For larger scale maps, including topographic quadrangles and the State Base Map Series,...
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To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of EmpireAs the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth...
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Mapping America: Exploring the ContinentFollowing on from Mapping New York and Mapping London, Mapping America: Exploring the Continent takes a similar approach in its presentation, thematically arranging a vivid collection of historic, demographic, cultural and artistic maps to aid the reader on their journey. Featuring four centuries of...
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