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From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by...

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Cartography

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings

Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapma...

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Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

Snyder John P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226767475, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 163 maps and charts, 12 portraits

As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth...

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