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The Story of Maps

 
The Story of Maps
   Author: Lloyd A. Brown
By Dover Publications Inc.
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 5.0/5

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Average rating of 5/5 Lloyd A. Brown's classic work in the field of cartography, 2004-10-24
As we learned from the example of Americo Vespucci, make a really good map and half the world can be named after you. In "The Story of Maps," Lloyd A. Brown provides an authoritative history of both maps and mapmakers, from the work of Strabo and Ptolemy to the 19th-century. Brown's treatise on the science of cartography and the men who set out to map the World was originally published in 1949. "The Story of Maps" is one of the standard early references for map collectors and a basic work in any cartographic reference collection. Brown covers both why maps were necessary and how they changed the world they were mapping out by impacting the economics and politics of nations (Brown's critique of the Portuguese is particularly compelling). This book contains over 80 illustrations, both photographs and drawings, which, unfortunately, suffer from being reduced in such a small format, especially for someone like me whose eyes and not what they once were, because once Brown explains the history behind such maps they are eminently more fascinating to pour over (albeit with a magnifying glass in my case).
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 526.09
EAN: 9780486238739
ISBN: 0486238733
Label: Dover Publications Inc.
Manufacturer: Dover Publications Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 1980-07
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Studio: Dover Publications Inc.
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