The World Through Maps
A History of Cartography
by John R. Short
224 pages· 2003· ISBN 9781552978115
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The author explores the colorful history of mapmaking, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the ideas and idealism that influenced cartography, from the Greeks who used information gleaned from Alexander the Great's conquests to improve their maps to the medievalists, who lost the Greek knowledge of the spherical earth.
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