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• Title:The mapmaker's art : an illustrated history of cartography / John Goss ; introduction by Valerie Scott.
  
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• Author/Creator:Goss, John, 1947-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Scott, Valerie, writer of introduction.
  
• Published/Created:Skokie, IL : Rand McNally, 1993.
  

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  • Call Number: GA201 .G67 1993
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cartography--History.
  
• Description:376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 38 cm.
  
• Summary:By taking a historical perspective, Goss is able to show how such important cartographers as Ptolemy, Mercator, Ortelius, and Jefferys artistically reflected the geographical learning of their own times, how the advent of printing increased the availability of accurate maps, and how the exploratory and expansionist activities of the western European nations expanded the functions of maps, which came to be used to delineate the boundaries of national and local government, mark trade routes and safe shipping lanes, and indicate sites of natural resources for development by new settlers. In addition to the European tradition, Goss also surveys the town plans of Imperial China, the star maps of 10th-century Arab astronomers, and the marine stick charts of the Pacific Islanders. Some of the more artistic flights of fancy, evident in elaborate allegorical figures and maps of mythical lands, are discussed in a chapter of their own.
  
• Notes:Errata slip inserted.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-366) and index.
  
• ISBN:052883620X
  
• Contents:The first mapmakers
  Medieval mapmaking
  The age of discovery
  The Dutch golden age
  The map making tradition
  The reform of cartography
  Surveys across the world
  Town plans and views
  The sea chart tradition
  Celestial charts and globes
  Curiosa
  Aesthetics.