Rhumb lines and map wars a social history of the Mercator projection
Bearings straight? an introduction -- Early sailing charts -- Mercator's résumé -- Revealing replicas -- The Wright approach -- Travelers' aide -- Soldiering on -- On track -- Wall maps and worldviews -- Size matters -- Points of view.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago
The University of Chicago Press
2004
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Geschichte
> Aspect social
> Cartografie
> Cartographie - Aspect social
> Cartographie
> Culturele aspecten
> Loxodromie
> Loxodromies
> Mercator, Projection de
> Mercatorprojectie
> Navigation
> Peters, Projection de
> Projection de Mercator
> Projection de Peters
> Sociale aspecten
> Gesellschaft
> Kultur
> Mercator projection (Cartography)
> Cartography
> Social aspects
> Loxodrome
> Peters projection (Cartography)
> Kartografie
> Mercator-Projektion
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Bearings straight? an introduction -- Early sailing charts -- Mercator's résumé -- Revealing replicas -- The Wright approach -- Travelers' aide -- Soldiering on -- On track -- Wall maps and worldviews -- Size matters -- Points of view. "In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines - clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing - for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse - often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways - for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 242 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226534316 0-226-53431-6 |