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Trading territories : mapping the early modern world
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ISBN: 1861890117 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Reaktion books


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Alte Landkarten : von der Antike bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts : ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der Kartographie
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ISBN: 9783515094085 3515094083 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner


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Maps and their makers : an introduction to the history of cartography.
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ISBN: 0712907564 0208017240 9780712907569 Year: 1978 Publisher: Folkestone Dawson


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Wereldtheater : de geschiedenis van de cartografie
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ISBN: 9789025309046 9025309046 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep

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Wereldtheater bevat de geschiedenis van de cartografie, vanaf mystieke symbolen in het stenen tijdperk tot en met de gps en Google Earth. Het is een fascinerend relaas vol wetenschap, kunst en technologie, een verhaal vol ambitie, praktische toepasbaarheid en dromen over verre werelden. Visionaire geografen (Mercator, Blaeu, Tharp) en heroïsche ontdekkingsreizigers (Columbus, Cook, Nansen, Amundsen) treffen hier de helden van de cartografie (Ptolemaios, Ortelius, Ewing). Dit boek is door de auteur speciaal bewerkt om van een Noors boek een internationaal werk te maken, met veel aandacht voor de Nederlandse en Belgische cartografiegeschiedenis.--


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The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography.
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ISBN: 0801870909 9780801870903 Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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In this collection of essays J. B. Hartley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, "positivist" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. Focusing on historical examples and the practises of modern cartography, J.B. Harley offers an alternative to the dominant view that Western cartography since the Renaissance has been a progressive technological, scientific and objective trajectory of development. This traditional view asserts that maps produce an accurate relational model of terrain and, as such, epitomize representational modernism, which is rooted in the project of the Enlightenment; in sum, maps banish subjectivity from the image. Accordingly, cartographers have promoted a standard scientific model for their discipline, one in which a mirror of nature can be projected through geometry and measurement. Cartographers often mistakenly assess early maps by this modern yardstick, excising from the accepted canon of mapping not only maps from the premodern era but also those from other cultures that do not match Western notions of accuracy. A central theme is the way in which power - whether military, political, religious or economic - becomes inscribed on the land through cartography.

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