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The Story of Maps by Lloyd A. Brown (1980, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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"An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources ... easily readable." -- Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library Early map making was characterized by secrecy. Maps were precious documents, drawn by astrologers and travelers, worn out through use or purposely destroyed. Just as men first mapped the earth indirectly, via the sun and stars, so must the history of maps be approached circuitously, through chronicles, astronomy, Strabo and Ptolemy, seamanship, commerce, politics. From the first determination of latitude 2000 years ago through the dramatic unraveling of longitude 1700 years later, the story of maps plots the course of civilization. This book charts the course with a breadth and depth still unsurpassed in a scholarly survey. Lloyd A. Brown's cartographic erudition came through his years as librarian of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, and as curator of maps at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, where he devised a system for classifying and cataloging some 25,000 old maps. He researched The Story of Maps over four years, seeking out as many pertinent sources as possible for a definitive history and summation of map lore. The Story of Maps follows the peaks and declines of western societies, with marine and topographic knowledge flourishing secretly with the sea powers of Minoan Crete and the Phoenicians, surfacing again with Hipparchus, Eratosthenes, Strabo, and Ptolemy, then waning until the Crusades brought travel and trade back to prominence. The Genoese, Venetians, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, and English all had their years of hegemony, great navigators and charts, aided by the mapping ideas of Mercator and Edward Wright. The most brilliant minds of the era, including Galileo and Newton, attempted to solve the problem of longitude at sea; the solution came from a Yorkshire clockmaker named John Harrison, who won a 20,000 pound prize for his pains. The Story of Maps celebrates cartography from Strabo to World War II. Eighty-six remarkable illustrations, including early maps, prints and portraits, many unique and seen only in museums, supplement the texts. The exhaustive bibliography matches the text in span and usefulness for those who will undoubtedly be stimulated by this book to read more regarding maps.

Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486238733

ISBN-139780486238739

eBay Product ID (ePID)711199

Product Key Features

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStory of Maps

Publication Year1980

SubjectAtlases, Gazetteers & Maps (See Also Travel / Maps & Road Atlases), General, Référence, History

FeaturesReprint

TypeMap

AuthorLloyd A. Brown

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN79-052395

Dewey Edition18

Target AudienceTrade

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal526/.09

Edition DescriptionReprint

Lc Classification NumberGa201

Table of ContentIntroductionI The Earth Takes ShapeII The Habitable WorldIII The World of Claudius PtolemyIV The Middle AgesV Charts and the Haven-Finding ArtVI The Map and Chart TradeVII The LatitudeVIII The LongitudeIX Survey of a CountryX Survey of a World Notes Bibliography Index