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La carte n'est pas le territoire : malgré leurs visées scientifiques, les cartes sont toujours subjectives, et intimement liées au contexte dans lequel elles naissent. Les cartographes ne se contentent pas de représenter le monde : ils le construisent, à partir des idées de leur époque et, de leur culture. Telle est la thèse de Jerry Brotton, et le point de départ de cet extraordinaire voyage à travers le temps et l'espace. En observant à la loupe douze cartes du monde, il ouvre autant, de fenêtres sur des civilisations aussi différentes que la Grèce antique et la Corée du XVe siècle, l'Europe des grandes découvertes et celle de la Révolution française, jusqu'au monde globalisé d'aujourd'hui, placé sous l'oeil de Google Earth. A l'issue de ce périple aussi captivant qu'instructif, on aura appris une foule de choses : saviez-vous de quand date l'habitude de placer le Nord en haut d'une carte ? quel planisphère a donné son nom à l'Amérique ? et vous doutiez-vous que, malgré les apparences, les cartes d'aujourd'hui ne sont pas plus définitives ni plus objectives que celles d'autrefois ?

Cartography --- History --- Cartography - History

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Cartography --- Technology --- Cartographie --- Technologie --- History --- Histoire --- History. --- Cartography - History.

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Cartography --- History. --- 912 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen --- Maps --- History --- Cartography - History. --- CARTOGRAPHY --- HISTORY

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This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.  The nineteen papers reflect the research interests of the Commission which span the period from the Enlightenment to the evolution of Geographical Information Science.  Apart from studies on general cartography, the volume, which reflects some co-operation with the ICA Commission on Maps and Society and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), contains regional studies on cartographic endeavours in Northern America, Brazil, and Southern Africa. The ICA Commission on Maps and Society participated as its field of study often overlaps with that of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The USGS which is the official USA mapping organisation, was invited to emphasise that the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography is not only interested in historical maps, but also has as mandate the research and document the history of Geographical Information Science.

Cartography -- History. --- Cartography -- History -- Congresses. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Cartography --- History --- Geography. --- Geographical information systems. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history

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Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.

Cartography --- Time in cartography --- History --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Geography --- World history --- Cartographie --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Cartography - History - Congresses --- Time in cartography - Congresses