Entrée principale:

Wilford, John Noble.

Titre et auteur:

The mapmakers / by John Noble Wilford.

Édition:

Revised edition, Second Vintage books edition.

Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2001.

Description:

xi, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1981. Rev. ed. published in 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-491) and index.
The map idea -- The librarian who measured Earth -- First principles by Ptolemy -- The topography of myth and dogma -- 1492 -- Mercator squares the circle -- The matter of a degree -- The family that mapped France -- John Harrison's timepiece -- Surveyors of sea and shore -- Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey -- Mapping America : the boundary makers -- Mapping America: westward the topographers -- Meters, meridians, and a new world map -- The winged mappers -- Radar over the Amazon -- Deep horizons -- A continent beneath the ice -- Mountains of the sea -- Base lines across a continent --Geodesy from space -- Mapping from space -- Dynamic maps: a new geography -- Extraterrestrial mapping: the Moon -- Extraterrestrial mapping: Mars -- Cosmic cartographers.

Résumé:

"Wilford tells the dramatic story of how, through the ages, technology - compasses, sextants, theodolites, cameras, airplanes, radar, sonar, computers, seismic probes, lasers, satellites - has transformed the way we see and measure our world. He details the innovations, from John Harrison's eighteenth-century marine chronometer, which enabled navigators to calculate longitude at sea, to the Pentagon's Global Positioning System (GPS), now used as widely by civilians as by the military to pinpoint the bearer's exact location on the globe."--Jacket

ISBN:

0375708502
9780375708503
0375409297

Sujet:

Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
Cartography.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 278301
Cote: BIB 213878
Statut: Disponible