Atlas: A World of Maps from the The British Library (new edition): A World of Maps from the British Library - Softcover

Harper, Tom

 
9780712353328: Atlas: A World of Maps from the The British Library (new edition): A World of Maps from the British Library
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712353321 ISBN 13: 9780712353328
Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

From the publication in 1595 of the first "atlas" by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called "accurate" in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey. Yet this atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made. The generous, full-color illustrations of each map in this large-format book range from the Klencke Atlas (1660) to Hokusai’s map of China (1840–41), from a 1682 pirate map of Guatemala to 20th-century cartographic postcards featuring maps of Australia.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Harper is Lead Curator of Antiquarian Maps at the British Library.

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From the publication in 1595 of the first atlas by Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform, and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world.

This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called accurate in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey.
Yet this atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made.

The generous, full-colour illustrations of each map in this book range from the Klencke Atlas to Hokusai's Map of China, from a 1682 pirate map of Guatemala to 20th-century cartographic postcards featuring maps of Australia. Atlas is the definitive printed showcase of the British Library's extensive and unparalleled map collection.

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Verlag
British Library Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712353321
ISBN 13 
9780712353328
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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