Main entry:

Wilford, John Noble.

Title & Author:

The mapmakers / by John Noble Wilford.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1981

Description:

xi, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-404) and index.
Prologue at Dana Butte. The map idea ; The librarian who measured earth ; First principles of Ptolemy ; The topography of myth and dogma ; 1492 ; Mercator squares the circle -- Yaki Point. The matter of a degree ; The family that mapped France ; John Harrison's timepiece ; Surveyors of sea and shore ; Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey ; Mapping America : the boundary makers ; Mapping America : westward the topographers ; Meters, meridians, and a new world map -- Bright Angel Point. The winged mappers ; Radar over the Amazon ; Deep horizons ; A continent beneath the ice ; Mountains of the sea ; Transcontinental precision ; Maps for the new geography -- The flight out. Mapping from space ; Extraterrestrial mapping : the moon ; Extraterrestrial mapping : Mars -- Epilogue at Bright Angel.

Summary:

A history of cartography, tracing the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has mapped the earth's surface and interior, the ocean's floors, and the moon and planets.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0394461940
9780394461946
0394753038
9780394753034

Subject:

Cartography History.
Maps history.
Cartographie Histoire.
Cartography
Kartografie
Geschichte
Cartografie.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318790
Call No.: 318790
Copy: 1
Status: Available