Rhumb lines and map wars a social history of the Mercator projection
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
cop. 2004
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bearings straight? an introduction
- Early sailing charts
- Mercator's résumé
- Revealing replicas
- The Wright approach
- Travelers' aide
- Soldiering on
- On track
- Wall maps and worldviews
- Size matters
- Points of view.
