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This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers
presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission
on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15
September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on
Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of
Oxford. The overall conference theme was 'Mapping Empires: Colonial
Cartographies of Land and Sea'. The book presents a breadth of
original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors
in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant
contribution to the development of this growing field and to many
interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic
information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers,
postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.
The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.
At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who
made them - the commanding and highly professional Samuel Holland,
Surveyor-General in the North, and the brilliant but mercurial
William Gerard De Brahm, Surveyor-General in the South. Battling
both physical and political obstacles, Holland and De Brahm sought
to establish their place in the firmament of the British hierarchy.
Yet the reality in which they had to operate was largely controlled
from afar, by Crown administrators in London and the colonies and
by wealthy speculators, whose approval or opposition could make or
break the best laid plans as they sought to use the Survey for
their own ends.
The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt throughout
the world, yet there is no clear explanation as to how these
changes will alter our future. The research being conducted within
the geospatial science field is pivotal to understanding the
effects the global environment is experiencing. The Handbook of
Research on Geospatial Science and Technologies is an essential
scholarly reference source that evaluates the current methodologies
and trends in geospatial science, and how these insights provide
society with more efficient and effective ways to manage natural
resources. Featuring discussions on relevant topics such as
cartography, geographical information systems, remotely sensed
data, and sustainability management, this publication is an
informative resource for all academicians, students, scientists,
and researchers that are interested in emerging developments within
geospatial science.
"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part
of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp
the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it
within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of
it."--from the Preface
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from
space--to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god
Apollo--images of the earth as a globe had captured popular
imagination. In "Apollo's Eye, " geographer Denis Cosgrove examines
the historical implications for the West of conceiving and
representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body.
Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have
shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth,
from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of
a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human
unity.
This book gathers various perspectives on modern map production.
Its primary focus is on the new paradigm of "sharing and reuse,"
which is based on decentralized, service-oriented access to spatial
data sources. Service-Oriented Mapping is one of the main paradigms
used to embed big data and distributed sources in modern map
production, without the need to own the sources. To be stable and
reliable, this architecture requires specific frameworks, tools and
procedures. In addition to the technological structures,
organizational aspects and geographic information system (GIS)
capabilities provide powerful tools to make modern geoinformation
management successful. Addressing a range of aspects, including the
implementation of the semantic web in geoinformatics, using big
data for geospatial visualization, standardization initiatives, and
the European spatial data infrastructure, the book offers a
comprehensive introduction to decentralized map production. .
In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo
traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he
chronicled in a narrative titled "Il Milione," later known as "The
Travels of Marco Polo." While Polo's writings would go on to
inspire the likes of Christopher Columbus, scholars have long
debated their veracity. Some have argued that Polo never even
reached China, while others believe that he came as far as the
Americas. Now, there's new evidence for this historical puzzle: a
very curious collection of fourteen little-known maps and related
documents said to have belonged to the family of Marco Polo
himself.
In "The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps," historian of
cartography Benjamin B. Olshin offers the first credible
book-length analysis of these artifacts, charting their course from
obscure origins in the private collection of Italian-American
immigrant Marcian Rossi in the 1930s; to investigations of their
authenticity by the Library of Congress, J. Edgar Hoover, and the
FBI; to the work of the late cartographic scholar Leo Bagrow; to
Olshin's own efforts to track down and study the Rossi maps, all
but one of which are in the possession of Rossi's great grandson
Jeffrey Pendergraft. Are the maps forgeries, facsimiles, or
modernized copies? Did Marco Polo's daughters--whose names appear
on several of the artifacts--preserve in them geographic
information about Asia first recorded by their father? Or did they
inherit maps created by him? Did Marco Polo entrust the maps to
Admiral Ruggero Sanseverino, who has links to Rossi's family line?
Or, if the maps have no connection to Marco Polo, who made them,
when, and why?
Regardless of the maps' provenance, Olshin's tale--stretching from
the remote reaches of the northern Pacific to early Chinese
legends--takes readers on a journey confounding yet fascinating,
offering insights into Italian history, the age of exploration, and
the wonders of cartography.
The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of
the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to
the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the
history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the
biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes,
and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps
are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in
European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents
an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it
suggests a classification of these maps according to their source,
shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that
were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical
and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere
of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative
contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish
studies. It is written for both professional readers and the
general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi
Prize.
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