Rhumb lines and map wars : a social history of the Mercator projection /

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"In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an 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 project...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monmonier, Mark S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Mercator projection (Cartography)
Cartography > Social aspects.
Loxodrome.
Peters projection (Cartography)
Navigation.
Projection de Mercator.
Cartographie > Aspect social.
Loxodromies.
Projection de Peters.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Cartography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Loxodrome
Navigation
Mercator-Projektion
Cartografie.
Mercatorprojectie.
Sociale aspecten.
Culturele aspecten.
Aspect social.
Loxodromie.
Cartographie.
maps, mapping, mapmaking, society, historical, academic, scholarly, research, illustrated, controversial, controversy, flemish, cartography, cartographer, gerard mercator, legacy, life story, 1500s, earth, flat, round, mariner, sea, seafaring, sailor, direction, compass, 19th, century, atlas, geopolitical, propaganda, colonialism, colonial, criticism, innovation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an 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."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.
ISBN:9780226534329
0226534324

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