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An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make-consciously or unconsciously-mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain true today, despite significant technological changes in the making and use of maps. The introduction and spread of digital maps and mapping software, however,...
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Félix de Azara es considerado generalmente como geógrafo y naturalista. Sin embargo, se ha hecho menos énfasis en su labor como etnógrafo sagaz. Azara recorrió el Chaco y convivió con los pueblos aborígenes de la región. Sus notas y observaciones reflejan el alcance de sus conocimientos sobre el Chaco y su comprensión sobre los hábitos y las tradiciones de sus habitantes.
Informes de don Félix de Azara sobre varios proyectos de colonizar...
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El Diario de la navegación y reconocimiento del río Tebicuary es uno de los varios de libros de viajes que escribió Azara. Sus trabajos dedicados a establecer, de forma científica, las fronteras entre las colonias españolas y las portuguesas. Esta actividad aparece también, entre otros textos suyos, en su Correspondencia oficial.
Félix Azara estudió la geografía de Sudamérica y esclareció en sus mapas el curso de ríos y el lugar de montañas....
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Félix Azara realizó el Diario de reconocimiento de guardias y fortines que guarnecían la línea de frontera de Buenos Aires a pedido de Melo de Portugal, con quien había mantenido una buena relación durante su larga estancia en el Paraguay cuando éste era por entonces su gobernador.
La máxima autoridad del virreinato del Río de la Plata, por medio del oficio del 29 de Febrero de 1796, exponía los motivos de la misión y las plazas que componían...
7) Treasure map
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[20223]
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Clarke is a girl who has just moved in and she is very serious about adventure; Miguel knows the neighborhood and is eager to meet new people and have adventures--so with walkie-talkies, a compass, paper, and colored pencils they set out to explore and draw an "adventure map"--or perhaps it is a treasure map as Miguel insists.
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Robin Wilson is emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the Open University and emeritus professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. He has written and edited many books on topics ranging from graph theory and combinatorics, via sudoku, philately, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, to the history of mathematics. He is currently president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan...
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Travel through the exciting world of cartography with “Map Art Lab”. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be...
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Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic 'Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of British design and ingenuity. Hailed by the art and design community as a cultural artifact, it has also inspired other culturally important pieces of artwork, and in 2006 was voted second in BBC 2's Great...
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A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.
In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300—1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries...
12) To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
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As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle...
13) Map of a Nation
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Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and this is-amazingly-the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it.
The Ordnance Survey's history is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions that altered the shape and identity...
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A mapmaker's vivid journey through the geography, ecology, and history of Ireland's Connemara region.
Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Tim Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history.
We begin with the earth right in front of his boots, as Robinson unveils swaths of fiontarnach, fall leaf decay. We peer from...
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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,...
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As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys-the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the world
Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution of mapping technology-the "overnight success twenty years in the making." Bill Kilday takes us behind the scenes of the tech's development, and introduces...
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The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.
In the 19th-century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining...
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