This issue Of the Bibliography includes items published from 2015 to 2017. The form of entries reflects the order and punctuation conventions of ISBD International Standard Bibliographic Description ...for Monographic publications. rev. ed. (s.l.: International Federation Of Library Associations and Institutions, 2002. — http:// www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd_m0602.pdI), but with modifications to accommodate articles in journals and collective works. Some English translations or paraphrases of titles have been supplied. The abbreviation 'ill.' alone implies illustration(s) 01 a cartographic nature; where both •ill.' and •maps' occur together illustrations or a general and or a cartographic nature are included.
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.
La lletra és un element d’ús quotidià per a tots nosaltres que comença en la nostra formació i és present en tota la nostra societat i que sovint ens passa desapercebuda. Però per alguns la lletra és ...objecte d’estudi, és l’univers d’una investigació. Presentem una cartografia que ens aproparà a diferents possibilitats d’investigació de la lletra. Dins d’aquest ampli univers hi ha diversos plans per apropar-nos-hi. Què és, què representa, per què s’utilitza i com es genera, com es percep o com es determina un significat, són alguns dels nombrosos interrogants a partir dels quals la lletra és motiu de reflexió.
This essay offers a geocritical reading of Boccaccio’s Genealogie deorum gentilium for its unique combination of poetry and geography. The Genealogy features the poet’s journey through the ...Mediterranean Sea, and in particular through the Archipelago, the Aegean Sea, to describe places where the myths of the pagan gods and their progeny unfolded, with the end goal of establishing the veracity of poetry. In so doing, he adopts an empirical approach to the search of the truth of the myths, thereby making a cartography of the poetry, a unique humanistic space in which he rescues the relics of a shipwrecked past by mapping spaces and places of civilization.
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ...ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy's ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor's rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
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