The Mapmakers

By: John Noble Wilford

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Paperback | 7 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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An updated edition of the classic, much praised history of cartography. It traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planets of our solar system.The author has added three new chapters, as well as many updates and amplifications, to reflect the great changes that have taken place in mapmaking in the past two decades.The Mapmakers will continue to be the definitive book on this fascinating subject.'A winning chronicle of map makers over time and space ... Wilford has combined the accounts to offer a variety of adventures and perceptions not so often well described.' Scientific American'Fascinating... Wilford manages to make everything from the discovery of the longitude to advanced laser-beam technology clear.' Newsweek'One begins to sense how very much of what we know about the makeup of our planet has come to light just the other day as history goes... Wilford has produced a brisk intelligent history.' New York Times Book Review

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'A winning chronicle of mapmakers over time and space... Wilford has combined the accounts to offer a variety of adventures and perceptions not so often well described.' Scientific American 'Fascinating... Wilford manages to make everything from the discovery of the longitude to advanced laser-beam technology clear.' Newsweek 'One begins to sense how very much of what we know about the makeup of our planet has come to light just the other day as history goes... Wilford has produced a brisk intelligent history.' New York Times Book Review

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Preface
Preface to the Revised Edition
Prologue at Dana Butte	p. 3
The Map Idea	p. 6
The Librarian Who Measured Earth	p. 18
First Principles by Ptolemy	p. 29
The Topography of Myth and Dogma	p. 40
1492	p. 66
Mercator Squares the Circle	p. 87
Yaki Point	p. 107
The Matter of a Degree	p. 111
The Family That Mapped France	p. 132
John Harrison's Timepiece	p. 152
Surveyors of Sea and Shore	p. 163
Soldiers, Pundits, and the India Survey	p. 189
Mapping America: The Boundary Makers	p. 205
Mapping America: Westward the Topographers	p. 223
Meters, Meridians, and a New World Map	p. 253
Bright Angel Point	p. 265
The Winged Mappers	p. 268
Radar Over the Amazon	p. 280
Deep Horizons	p. 296
A Continent Beneath the Ice	p. 312
Mountains of the Sea	p. 325
Base Lines Across a Continent	p. 353
The Flight Out	p. 369
Geodesy from Space	p. 372
Mapping from Space	p. 389
Dynamic Maps: A New Geography	p. 409
Extraterrestrial Mapping: The Moon	p. 426
Extraterrestrial Mapping: Mars	p. 446
Cosmic Cartographers	p. 463
Epilogue at Bright Angel	p. 469
Bibliographical Notes	p. 475
Acknowledgments	p. 493
Index	p. 495
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