Globes : 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power /

The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted the idea. The first record of an actual globe being mad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sumira, Sylvia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
Cartography > History.
Globes > History.
SCIENCE / General.
explorer, ships, navigator, history, historical, global, international, globe, earth, pythagoras, thinker, intellectual, plato, aristotle, celestial, astronomy, astronomer, atlas, 15th, century, terrestrial, behaim, collection, library, britain, british, 19th, function, aesthetic, classical, commercial, mass produced, historian, collector.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Parts of a Globe
  • A Brief History of Globes
  • The Making of Globes
  • The Globes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Picture Credits
  • Index

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