Download or read book Ortelius Atlas Maps written by M. P. R. van den Broecke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.
Download or read book The Map of Orbis Terrarum written by DJ Schneider and published by deBoys Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Altass Review, 5 Stars: Nothing is simple and straightforward. The story twists and turns and throws curveballs that even the most ardent mystery reader wouldn’t expect. Recently selected for the Library Writers Project noting, "Your novel was a standout!" Her fate rests with the map… Fifteen-year-old Melanie Simpson's life has been ripped apart and is lying in shambles. With her mother near death, she may soon be orphaned. And her relationship with her boyfriend, Frankie, falters, regains footing, and falters again as Mel tries to keep a balance between love and deceit—afraid to know which will win out. Someone then steps into her life, changing it forever. She may need to leave home and lose her close friends, possibly forever. She also learns of a truth she refuses to believe, and runs from it. But from what, and into what? Still, she continues her quest, driven by destiny as defined through a connection with the Sky People and a link to the stars. She resumes her search for the mysterious Orb, a device given to her father by a dying alien. Now that he has died, it is up to her to locate the Orb and finish his work. Then she learns of a professor who has a film of him with the Orb. The film shows a hologram of a sixteenth-century map, the Map of Orbis Terrarum. It displays points of energy around the world her father was studying. Could the map reveal the purpose of her quest? But in her efforts to reach the professor, death and destruction find their hold. The many layers of Melanie Simpson continue to unfold, driving her along a path of destiny.
Download or read book Cities of the Renaissance World written by Michael Swift and published by Compendium Publishing & Communications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised and updated, illustrated guide to the grounds that host Europe?s prestigious Champions League.
Download or read book Bodies and Maps written by Maryanne Cline Horowitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Download or read book Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 1641 written by M. P. R. van den Broecke and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Encounters with the New World written by Anthony Pagden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Maps written by Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek and Roman Maps, O. A. W. Dilke follows the development of map-making skills, beginning in Babylonia and Egypt, through the contributions of Greek scientists and Roman administrators and surveyors, to the Age of Discovery. He provides examples of the full range of Greek and Roman maps, including town and building plans, itineraries and road maps, sea itineraries, and maps in art form. "It is an extremely useful book, packed with information, simply and succinctly expressed... there is no doubt that it was Greek theoretical thinking and a growing knowledge of geography, combined with the practical demands imposed upon the administrators of the Roman Empire, which led to the development and widespread use of maps more or less as we know them." -- Mary E. Hoskins Walbank, Echos du monde classique
Download or read book The Geography and Map Division written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps written by Chet Van Duzer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Download or read book Typus orbis terrarum written by Abraham ORTELIUS and published by . This book was released on 1598 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Display label text from 'Lie of the Land: the Secret Life of Maps', British Library, 2001-2002: "Map of Japan by Ortelius, 1595 and four variant forms The regions furthest away from Europe posed the greatest problems for Western mapmakers and Japan was given more different outlines than anywhere else. The standard atlas of the late 16th century, Abraham Ortelius's, included four different versions in its earlier editions. Finally, in 1595, the atlas added the first widely disseminated sheet entirely devoted to Japan, drawn by Luis Teixeira, a Portuguese Jesuit. However, from then onwards, the atlas confusingly continued to include all five conflicting outlines of Japan. Today's maps are supposed to provide certainty; in the 16th century the user had to choose. Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1598. Maps C.2.d.7."
Download or read book The History of Abraham Ortelius and His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum written by Cornelis Koeman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas written by M. P. R. van den Broecke and published by Brill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and others.
Download or read book Fra Mauro s World Map written by Piero Falchetta and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains: digital reproduction of Fra Mauro's world map with the ability to navigate within the map and extract information from it.
Download or read book The Story of Maps written by Anne Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of people who love maps is growing. They are now very popular with the book-buying public. Among many other bits of information, this book reveals how the rules of cartography were drawn up and how people worked out the dimensions of the world.
Download or read book Theater of the World written by Thomas Reinertsen Berg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated full-color history of mapmaking across centuries -- a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history and the men who made it. Thomas Reinertsen Berg takes us all the way from the mysterious symbols of the Stone Age to Google Earth, exploring how the ability to envision what the world looked like developed hand in hand with worldwide exploration. Along the way, we meet visionary geographers and heroic explorers along with other unknown heroes of the map-making world, both ancient and modern. And the stunning visual material allows us to witness the extraordinary breadth of this history with our own eyes.
Download or read book Treasures from the Map Room written by Debbie Hall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China - the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography - and an early world map from the medieval Islamic Book of Curiosities, together with more recent examples of fictional places drawn in the twentieth century, such as C.S. Lewis's own map of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien's map of Middle Earth.As well as the works of famous mapmakers Mercator, Ortelius, Blaeu, Saxton and Speed, the book also includes lesser known but historically significant works: early maps of the Moon, of the transit of Venus, hand-drawn estate plans and early European maps of the New World. There are also some surprising examples: escape maps printed on silk and carried by pilots in the Second World War in case of capture on enemy territory; the first geological survey of the British Isles showing what lies beneath our feet; a sixteenth-century woven tapestry map of Worcestershire; a map plotting outbreaks of cholera and a jigsaw map of India from the 1850s. Behind each of these lies a story, of intrepid surveyors, ambitious navigators, chance finds or military victories. Drawing on the unique collection in the Bodleian Library, these stunning maps range from single cities to the solar system, span the thirteenth to the twenty-first century and cover most of the world.
Download or read book Imagined Corners written by Paul Binding and published by Headline Book Pub Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had done—it presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world’s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world.
