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Author : Edward Graham Richards
Release : 1998
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping Time by : Edward Graham Richards
Download or read book Mapping Time written by Edward Graham Richards. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of calendars. The Millenium - do we have the correct date? Why do we celebrate Easter Sunday when we do? Find out in this book.
Author : Kären Wigen
Release : 2020-11-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 62X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time in Maps by : Kären Wigen
Download or read book Time in Maps written by Kären Wigen. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : M. J. Kraak
Release : 2014
Genre : Cartography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 125/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping Time by : M. J. Kraak
Download or read book Mapping Time written by M. J. Kraak. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 takes an engaging look at the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map.
Author : Daniel Rosenberg
Release : 2013-07-02
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cartographies of Time by : Daniel Rosenberg
Download or read book Cartographies of Time written by Daniel Rosenberg. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time, authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites, Cartographies of Time features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways, curving, crossing, branching, defy conventional thinking about the form. A fifty-four-foot-long timeline from 1753 is mounted on a scroll and encased in a protective box. Another timeline uses the different parts of the human body to show the genealogies of Jesus Christ and the rulers of Saxony. Ladders created by missionaries in eighteenth-century Oregon illustrate Bible stories in a vertical format to convert Native Americans. Also included is the April 1912 Marconi North Atlantic Communication chart, which tracked ships, including the Titanic, at points in time rather than by their geographic location, alongside little-known works by famous figures, including a historical chronology by the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator and a chronological board game patented by Mark Twain. Presented in a lavishly illustrated edition, Cartographies of Time is a revelation to anyone interested in the role visual forms have played in our evolving conception of history
Author : Evelyn Edson
Release : 1999
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Mapping Time and Space by : Evelyn Edson
Download or read book Mapping Time and Space written by Evelyn Edson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, medieval maps were often looked upon as quaint, amusing, and quite simply wrong. By comparison the best examples of modern cartography appear to offer a much more accurate record of the world. However, as Professor Edson makes clear in this stimulating book, when seeking the meaning and purpose of maps in the Middle Ages, one cannot assume that they were used for the same purposes or had the same meaning as they do today. In fact, the differences in structure and content give us an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world. By a close study of the context in which the mapmakers produced their work, it can be shown that they were often striving to present -- and make sense of -- a world picture that naturally incorporated key 'events' from the past, at the same time showing a narrative of human spiritual development from the Creation to the Last Judgment. -- From publisher's description.
