World View Peters Projection Map
Author | : WorldView Publications |
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Release | : 1995-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781872142005 |
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Author | : WorldView Publications |
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Release | : 1995-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781872142005 |
Author | : Arno Peters |
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Release | : 2002-11-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781872142524 |
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 | : Ward L. Kaiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Peters projection (Cartography) |
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Author | : Ward L. Kaiser |
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Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Synopsis: Maps become a means of seeing the world from many perspectives in this appealing guide, which is aimed at training readers to look at images with a critical eye. The authors (a social scientist and a pastor/community organizer) challenge readers to stretch their intellectual boundaries while they wrap their minds around demonstrations of the many ways of making maps and the truth that no way is "the right one." A final chapter provides a guide to using map projections in human resource development and adult education. It's a smart book but not a beautiful one-many of the illustrations went muddy in the transfer from color to b&w, and seven unlovely pages of the publisher's advertising precede the index. Wide format: 11x8.5.
Author | : Arno Peters |
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Release | : 2001-08-06 |
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ISBN | : 9781872142555 |
Author | : Schofield & Sims Limited |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
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ISBN | : 9780721709338 |
Author | : Arno Peters |
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Release | : 1989-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780714732534 |
Author | : Denis Wood |
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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 | : Jerry Brotton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143126024 |
A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph