Isbn: 9780715338162 - to the ends of the earth: 100 maps that changed the world (5 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This fascinating book focuses on 100 maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making, or directly influenced the path of history. It reveals how different people have observed and represented their world through the ages, and how world maps have been used for a variety of purposes. A team of experts address the key questions of how, why, and crucially, if, these maps have changed the world. It is illustrated with 100 of the world's most beautiful maps. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> But maps do not just reflect these historical circumstances: as part of the power structures, organisation and administration of societies, they have a reciprocal elationship with them. Maps are both predictive and descriptive, they are proactive and reactive, they can push both physical and intellectual boundaries, and they can encourage research and debate. This is as true for maps made in prehistoric times as for those produced today. For example, maps could reinforce, influence or alter contemporary beliefs. Thus the first map illustrated in this book the Babylonian World Map (Map 1), shows the world (with Babylon at its centre) and its encircling earthly ocean as believed by the Mesopotamians in c. 600 B.C.E.; the mappae mundi in Chapter 3, 'The Medieval World', show medieval concepts of the world and were used to convey much theological (see, for example, Map 16), moral, historical and zoological (Map 17) information in a spatial framework; while the Peter's proj.…