The mapmakers / by John Noble Wilford
- Bib ID:
- 2169834
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilford, John Noble
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Description:
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- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2000
- xi, 507 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0375409297 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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"Wilford tells the dramatic story of how, through the ages, technology - compasses, sextants, theodolites, cameras, airplanes, radar, sonar, computers, seismic probes, lasers, satellites - has transformed the way we see and measure our world. He details the innovations, from John Harrison's eighteenth-century marine chronometer, which enabled navigators to calculate longitude at sea, to the Pentagon's Global Positioning System (GPS), now used as widely by civilians as by the military to pinpoint the bearer's exact location on the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Map Idea
- 2. The Librarian Who Measured Earth
- 3. First Principles by Ptolemy
- 4. The Topography of Myth and Dogma
- 5. 1492
- 6. Mercator Squares the Circle
- 7. The Matter of a Degree
- 8. The Family That Mapped France
- 9. John Harrison's Timepiece
- 10. Surveyors of Sea and Shore
- 11. Soldiers, Pundits, and the India Survey
- 12. Mapping America: The Boundary Makers
- 13. Mapping America: Westward the Topographers
- 14. Meters, Meridians, and a New World Map
- 15. The Winged Mappers
- 16. Radar Over the Amazon
- 17. Deep Horizons
- 18. A Continent Beneath the Ice
- 19. Mountains of the Sea
- 20. Base Lines Across a Continent
- 21. Geodesy from Space
- 22. Mapping from Space
- 23. Dynamic Maps: A New Geography
- 24. Extraterrestrial Mapping: The Moon
- 25. Extraterrestrial Mapping: Mars
- 26. Cosmic Cartographers
- Epilogue at Bright Angel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-491) and index.
- Subject:
- Cartography -- History
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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