The mapmakers
by John Noble Wilford
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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The mapmakers: the story of the great pioneers in cartography - from antiquity to the space age
2002, Pimlico
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The mapmakers
2001, Vintage Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-491) and index.
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A comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has succeeded in mapping the globe, moon and the planets.
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