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The world for a king : Pierre Desceliers' map of 1550
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ISBN: 9780712356183 Year: 2015 Publisher: London The British Library


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Great maps : the world's masterpieces explored and expanded
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ISBN: 9781409345718 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Dorling Kindersley

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Abraham Ortelius, 1527-1598 : life, works, sources and friends
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ISBN: 9789090294865 9090294864 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bilthoven Cartographica Neerlandica


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Grenzen : een exploratie van hoe we aan de grenzen gekomen zijn waarbinnen wij nu leven, aan de hand van oude kaarten
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ISBN: 9789090292694 9090292691 Year: 2015 Publisher: Hoeselt Nicole Knops


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The world in a mirror : world maps from the Middle Ages to present day : [exposition, Antwerpen, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), 24.04.2015 - 16.08.2015 : catalogue
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ISBN: 9789085866930 9085866936 Year: 2015 Publisher: Antwerpen BAI for the MAS

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The Earth's surface area is 510 million square kilometres. For centuries, humans all around the world have tried to make Earth's massive size comprehensible in a smaller format, namely in maps of the world.0Maps of the world, from past to present, show us what we know about the world. World maps are reflections of a spirit of the times. In the Christian Middle Ages, Jerusalem was the centre of the world maps. The unknown parts of the world were populated with monsters and fairy-tale figures. Explorations later expanded horizons. Eastern and Western knowledge came together. Globes were created. Now, thanks to Google's satellite maps, it seems like we know practically everything about the world. But is that true? "The World in a Mirror" depicts the history of the Western view of the world using unique maps and globes. Each century saw more and more of the world being mapped out, and the way in which that world was presented differend in each century too. A few contemporary artists add their own reflections of the world to this story. Exhibition: MAS, Antwerpen, Belgium (18.04-09.08.2015).


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Cartography in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 9780226534695 9780226534701 9780226534718 0226534715 0226534693 0226534707 Year: 2015 Volume: 6/1-2 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press


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Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript
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ISBN: 9789004304536 9789004307278 9004307273 9004304533 9004304533 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boston : Brill/Hes and De Graaf,

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In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript , Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here .


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Rome measured and imagined
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ISBN: 9780226127637 9780226127774 022612777X 022612763X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago London

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