Peters Projection Map
Author | : Schofield & Sims Limited |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780721709338 |
Download Peters Projection Map Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Peters World Map Poster PDF full book. Access full book title Peters World Map Poster.
Author | : Schofield & Sims Limited |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780721709338 |
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780898624939 |
This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.
Author | : Mark Monmonier |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226534324 |
In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly 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. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9781904456551 |
This book explains the principles behind the Peters' Projection Map and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Features over 70 maps and illustrations, including a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950s), Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow and routes of African Slave Trading.
Author | : Peters Arno |
Publisher | : H.F. Ullmann |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-08-10 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780841671560 |
Provides physical, political, and human and economic geography maps of the world in currect surface area proportion, and includes maps covering such subjects as nutrition, demography, energy use, and health.
Author | : New Internationalist Publication Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781869847012 |
Author | : Jeff Peters |
Publisher | : Wise Ink |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781634891486 |
New Young-Adult Fantasy Series! Racing to save his outcast mother, a blacksmith's son finds himself in the center of a war and only the sentient being inside his sword can save them. "An inventive & imaginative novel with an epic struggle, and exciting action scenes that leap out of the pages" ★★★★★ Writer's Digest Book Awards 2018
Author | : Peter Gorman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781733364614 |
A collection of 100 Minimalist Maps by Peter Gorman
Author | : Peter Cross |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1990-06-01 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780679803430 |
Just as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north prepare to take over their land.
Author | : Arno Peters |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Atlases. |
ISBN | : 9780060165406 |
REFERENCE