Download or read book Rhumb Lines and Map Wars written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.

Download or read book Mercator written by Nicholas Crane and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilization Born at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers who painstakingly pieced together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them-a poor farm boy who attended one of Europe's top universities, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Inquisition, but survived to coin the term "atlas" and to produce the so-called projection for which he is known. Devoutly religious, yet gripped by Aristotelian science, Mercator struggled to reconcile the two, a conflict mirrored by the growing clash in Europe between humanism and the Church. Mercator solved the dimensional riddle that had vexed cosmographers for so long: How could the three-dimensional globe be converted into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings? The projection revolutionized navigation and has become the most common worldview. Nicholas Crane-a fellow geographer-has combined a keen eye for historical detail with a gift for vivid storytelling to produce a masterful biography of the man who mapped the planet.

Download or read book Gerardus Mercator written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.

Download or read book The Description and Use of Mercator s Chart To which is Added the Description of a New Scale Whereby Distances May be Measured Also a Letter to Dr Halley Concerning the Globular Chart written by Thomas HASELDEN and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Accompaniment to Mitchell s map of the World on Mercator s projection containing an index to the various countries etc represented on the map also a general description of the five great divisions of the globe written by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Accompaniment to Michell s Map of the World on Mercator s Projections written by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Accompaniment to Mitchell s Map of the World on Mercator s Projection written by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Certain Properties of Mercator s Chart More Especially with Reference to the Curve Formed by the Projection of a Great Circle of the Sphere Upon it written by John Riddle and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A World of Innovation written by Gerhard Holzer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594) was the most important cartographer and globemaker of the 16th century. He is particularly remembered for his publication Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595), and for his specific cylindrical map projection (1569), which is still used widely today. This book brings together the latest research on Mercator with a view to his sources and his relationships with other scientific disciplines and cartographers of his time, as well as his role in the wider worlds of Renaissance cartography and Humanism.

Download or read book The World of Gerard Mercator written by Andrew Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost extinguished by the Spanish Inquisition, genius cartographer Mercator revolutionized the study of geography. His "projection" was so visionary that it is still used by NASA to map Mars today.

Download or read book Mercator s System of Expeditious Calculation The arithmetic of England and commercial calculator etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Space Image Processing written by Julio Sanchez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-12-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space Image Processing covers the design and coding of PC software for processing and manipulating imagery obtained by satellites and other spacecraft. Although the contents relate to several scientific and technological fields, it serves as a programming book, providing readers with essential technical information for developing PC applications. The material focuses on images of the planet and other celestial bodies obtained by orbiting and non-orbiting spacecraft. This book is not about raster graphics in general, but about raster graphics processing as it applies to space imagery. Three parts divide the text: Science - background at an introductory level - scientific principles underlying space imagery and its processing - topics related to space and remote sensing Technology - topics related to space imagery - geodesy, cartography, image data formats, image processing Programming - code examples for DOS and Windows programming on the PC - consideration of low-level and C++ code - routines with a tutorial and demonstrative purpose Space Image Processing includes a CD-ROM holding all the source code and programs discussed in the text. The CD contains a demo version of the TM-Lab program, a public domain Thematic Mapper scene of the Grand Canyon area, two public domain space image viewers, and sample images.

Download or read book JAR Professional Pilot Studies written by Phil Croucher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground study material for European pilot's written exams - aeroplanes & helicopter.

Download or read book Mercator s Sailing Applied to the True Figure of the Earth With an Introduction Concerning the Discovery and Determination of that Figure By Patrick Murdoch written by Patrick Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pocket Companion for Seamen wherein is contained plain and Mercator s Sailing by vulgar arithmetic and tables To which is added the whole art of gunnery and guaging of vessels etc written by Thomas RATCLIFFE (Mariner.) and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mercator s Reply to Mr Booth s Pamphlet on Free Trade as Published in the Liverpool Standard written by Sir John Gladstone and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Reports Common Pleas written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).