Mapmakers Revised Edition

Name: Mapmakers Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780375708503

ISBN-10: 0375708502

ISBN-13: 9780375708503

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: John Noble Wilford

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

John Noble Wilford is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science correspondent for the New York Times. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and, since 1965, the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan and Bellport, Long Island.



Preface


Preface to the Revised Edition



The Map Idea



The Librarian Who Measured Earth



First Principles by Ptolemy



The Topography of Myth and Dogma



1492



Mercator Squares the Circle



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 Boundary Makers



Mapping America: Westward the Topographers



Meters, Meridians, and a New World Map



The Winged Mappers



Radar Over the Amazon



Deep Horizons



A Continent Beneath the Ice



Mountains of the Sea



Base Lines Across a Continent



Geodesy from Space



Mapping from Space



Dynamic Maps: A New Geography



Extraterrestrial Mapping: The Moon



Extraterrestrial Mapping: Mars



Cosmic Cartographers


Epilogue at Bright Angel


Bibliographical Notes


Acknowledgments


Index