Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
- ISBN-10
- 022660568X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226605685
- Series
- Cartography
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-02
- Author
- Matthew H. Edney
Description
Introducing the ideal of cartography -- Seeing, and seeing past, the ideal -- Cartography's idealized preconceptions -- The ideal of cartography emerges -- Map scale and cartography's idealized geometry -- Not cartography, but mapping
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- 2020-07-28
- 245 pages
- Paperback
- CRC Press
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