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Exploring \u003cb\u003ekey cartographers\u003c\/b\u003e and mapmaking methods, as well as fascinating interludes on subjects such as the very first maps, deliberate mistakes, and superlative maps, this comprehensive guide explores how the \u003cb\u003etechniques and technology have developed\u003c\/b\u003e throughout human history:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \u003cb\u003eEvolving methods of surveying\u003c\/b\u003e: from the Roman groma, through the naval instruments of the magnetic compass, astrolabes and sextants, to the 20th century revolution of aerial photography \u003cbr\u003e • \u003cb\u003eDrawing tools and materials\u003c\/b\u003e: from Babylonian maps carved in clay, to digital maps created via touchscreen\u003cbr\u003e • The introduction of \u003cb\u003evarious mapping conve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e 1. IN THE BEGINNING\u003cbr\u003e The First Maps\u003cbr\u003e 2. SURVEYS AND SKETCHES\u003cbr\u003e Gathering the Information\u003cbr\u003e 3. WHYS AND WHEREFORES\u003cbr\u003e The Purpose of Maps\u003cbr\u003e 4. OLD TIMERS\u003cbr\u003e The First Map-makers\u003cbr\u003e 5. IN THE ROUND\u003cbr\u003e Globes and Spheres\u003cbr\u003e 6. SURFACE MATTERS\u003cbr\u003e Materials for Drawing Maps\u003cbr\u003e 7. A MAP OF MANY PARTS\u003cbr\u003e The Components of a Map\u003cbr\u003e 8. GOING NOWHERE\u003cbr\u003e Places Which Weren’t There\u003cbr\u003e 9. THE DRAWING ROOM\u003cbr\u003e Key Cartographers from the Golden Age to the Modern Age\u003cbr\u003e 10. MIGHTY MAPS\u003cbr\u003e Mapping Superlatives\u003cbr\u003e 11. A MAP IN HAND\u003cbr\u003e The Purposes to Which Maps Have Been Put\u003cbr\u003e CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e FURTHER RESOURCES\u003cbr\u003e INDEX\u003cbr\u003e CREDITS\u003cbr\u003e ABOUT THE AUTHOR \u0026amp; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Quarto Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833356271959,"sku":"9780711282643","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780711282643.jpg?v=1710345659"},{"product_id":"the-globemakers-the-curious-story-of-an-ancient-craft-9781526650870","title":"The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the creations it has inspired, told by the only truly bespoke globemakers in the world, Bellerby \u0026amp; Co. Globemakers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art' - Lara Maiklem, author of \u003ci\u003eMudlarking\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby \u0026amp; Co. Globemakers, the world’s only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Failing to find anything suitable, he decided to make one himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this forgotten craft. The chapters of The Globemakers take us through the journey of how to build a globe, or ‘earth apples’ as they were first known, and include fascinating vignettes on history, art history, astronomy and physics, as well as the day-to-day craftsmanship at the workshop itself. This beautiful book uses illustration, photography and narrative to tell the story of our globe and many different globes it has inspired. --------- \u003cb\u003e'A book as beautiful as the craft it describes, \u003ci\u003eThe Globemakers\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspirational story of a craftsman’s dogged pursuit for perfection. It’s written with the intricacy of someone who can capture the fine details of our vast planet in something small enough to sit on your desk' - Rebecca Struthers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hands of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Absolutely fascinating from beginning to end - an adventure like no other!' - Alice Loxton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book as beautiful as the craft it describes, \u003ci\u003eThe Globemakers\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspirational story of a craftsman’s dogged pursuit for perfection. It’s written with the intricacy of someone who can capture the fine details of our vast planet in something small enough to sit on your desk' * Rebecca Struthers, author of The Hands of Time *\u003cbr\u003e'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art' * Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking *\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely fascinating from beginning to end - an adventure like no other!' * Alice Loxton *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The Globemakers\u003c\/i\u003e is a lovely object, beautifully conceived and skillfully executed. With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs, it encourages the reader to linger and explore. In that sense the rectangular book echoes the round object it chronicles…Globes are like other anachronisms that reflect the way things were: solid, durable, based on a knowable past instead of an uncertain future. A beautiful globe in a handsome library is the essence of romance. In this sense, it is right that a book should be the medium to commemorate Bellerby \u0026amp; Co’s unlikely success. Yet artisanship of this type does something else: It rewards a desire for tactile engagement in a digital era, when so much daily ephemera comes and goes with our hands never touching it. Mr. Bellerby captures this basic human impulse by reporting what many visitors to his studio request. After admiring a globe and then tentatively stepping closer, they often ask—to his delight—'May I spin it?’” * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e'Beautiful…Bellerby’s love of globes is contagious…Interspersed with Bellerby’s account of his progress are interesting factoids about the planet, the heavens, the need to update maps, the tilt of the earth, the role of the equator in both the earth and on globes, and many other tidbits' * Washington Independent Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Globemakers\u003c\/i\u003e brings us inside Bellerby's gorgeous studio to learn how he and his team of cartographers and artists bring these stunning celestial, terrestrial, and planetary objects to life. Along the way he tells stories of his adventure and the luck along the way that shaped the company…an enlightening exploration of globes and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe…As fascinating as it is informative' * Midwest Book Review *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851972591959,"sku":"9781526650870","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526650870.jpg?v=1710649809"},{"product_id":"the-map-that-changed-the-world-9780140280395","title":"The Map That Changed the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London''s Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. 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Born in 1769 his life was troubled: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat recognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph: \u003ci\u003eThe Map That Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e is his story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''For a geologist, this is a must read'' Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''It serves to lift a genius from academic semi-obscurity and to award him the acknowledgement he undoubtedly deserves'' Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Never realised how seminal this map was'' Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732353200471,"sku":"9780140280395","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140280395.jpg?v=1719996529"},{"product_id":"principles-of-geographical-information-systems-9780198742845","title":"Principles of Geographical Information Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeographical data are used in so many aspects of our lives today, ranging from disaster relief operations through to finding directions on our mobile phones. We can all be data collectors, adding locational information as we capture digitally our day-to-day experiences. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are the software tools that facilitate this, turning the raw data into useful information that can help us understand our worlds better.Principles of Geographical Information Systems presents a thorough overview of the subject, exploring both the theoretical basis of GIS, and their use in practice. It explains how data on the world are converted into digital form and the analytical capabilities used to bring understanding to a range of areas of interest and issues. Spatial data are usually based on two, dichotomous paradigms: exactly defined entities in space, such as land parcels and urban structures, or the continuous variation of single attributes, such as temperature or rainfal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition [This second edition] builds upon the previous work in providing a very welcome basic, concise and more up to date introduction to the principles underlying GISs ... a osund and readable introduction to a complex subject. * International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, v. 9 no. 3, 2000 *\u003cbr\u003eChoosing a course text in the early post-GIS years was very easy. Peter Burrough's Principles of geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment was the definitive work. Beautifully written and illustrated...Peter Burrough set himself a hard act to follow...In almost every respect this is a new book, and not the second edition it purports to be...So, this is a rarity in textbook publishing a second edition that improves on the first. It looks set to be my recommended course text for many years to come. * David Unwin\/GIS Europe June 1998. *\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents a strong theoritical basis for GIS, which is often lacking in other texts...the optimising of timber extraction from forests and the redistribution of Chernobyl radioactivity by floods are explained clearly in detail. * Mapping Awareness April 1998 *\u003cbr\u003eThis new publication is up to date and provides comprehensive coverage of virtually all aspects of GIS. It is clearly written and technical where appropriate ... it should be recommended for postgraduate courses and for all teachers of GIS. * David Walker, The Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Geographical information systems and society ; 2. Spatial data and their models: formal abstractions of reality ; 3. Geographical data in the computer ; 4. Data input and verification ; 5. Visualization ; 6. Exploring geographical data ; 7. Analysis of discrete entities in space ; 8. Interpolation 1: deterministic and spline-based approaches ; 9. Interpolation 2: geostatistical approaches ; 10. Analysis of continuous fields ; 11. Digital elevation models ; 12. Space-time modelling and error propagation ; 13. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy geographical objects ; 14. GIS, transformations, and future developments","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732774957399,"sku":"9780198742845","price":51.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198742845.jpg?v=1719998345"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-cartography-volume-4-9780226184753","title":"The History of Cartography Volume 4","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732902687063,"sku":"9780226184753","price":375.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226184753.jpg?v=1719998883"},{"product_id":"time-in-maps-9780226718590","title":"Time in Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in static maps that offer lessons for us today. In this collection, historians Karen Wigen and Caroline Winterer bring together leading scholars to consider how mapmakers depicted time. The essays show that time has often been a major component of what we usually consider to be a spatial medium. Focusing on 500 years of mapmaking in Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought-provoking. . . . This scholarly work provides an intriguing, unique way to consider maps. Recommended for those who like cartography and history.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Maps not only help us to organize ourselves in space and time, but also to deal with the past, present, and future, both human and cosmic. Geographic information systems (GIS) provided a new approach to mapping when they emerged in the mid-20th century. Today, digital technologies that began with GIS now provide online access to source material via high-resolution images, accompanied by ever-increasing numbers of tools facilitating a larger cartographic presence. This collection from Wigen and Winterer explores how the practice of mapping has developed over time and the many innovative ways maps have depicted spaces and political imaginaries. . . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Leading scholars consider the sophisticated ways in which the movement of time was depicted in maps, examining centuries of cartography from around the world, and providing more than 100 colour maps and illustrations.\" * The Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-rate collection. . . . It provides an important work for cartographic scholars, and, more generally, offers those interested in historiography much to consider. The volume is a pleasure to read, with many well-selected maps and a high standard of reproduction.\" * The Critic *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e delves into some little-explored areas of the history of cartography and expands the purview of map history. The essays are engaging and draw the reader into often unfamiliar subject matter. The volume is well edited and produced, with many excellent, full-color re-productions of maps and illustrations. The collection as a whole supports the editors’ propositions regarding time in maps, particularly the proposals that historical maps developed globally in the early modern age and that static maps are surprisingly diverse in their strategies for representing time. \u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to scholars of historical mapping, and to readers in general who want to learn about how history is portrayed in maps.\" * The Portolan *\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to its innovative theme and astute analyses, Time in Maps is a welcome invitation to mapmakers, historians, and geographers to situate GIS and other computer driven ways of visualizing time within the much wider history of spatio-temporal cartography. Both the text and the lavish illustrations successfully show how physical maps have situated readers in moments of both space and time, expressed historical process, communicated both sacred and profane chronologies, and revealed ways in which mapmakers in different contexts have perceived time and incorporated it into their work.\" * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"This sumptuously-illustrated large-sized book serves, effectively, as a celebration of the development of GIS. . . . The eight contributors are all of equal scholarly standing, and their individual contributions both reflect this and, by interacting with each other, playing off each other, create a greater whole. Histories of cartography have an in-built advantage: their historical illustrations are works-of-art; their contemporary examples are technological marvels. But the analytical scholarship on display in this collection raises it all to a different and altogether satisfying level.\" * Geography Realm *\u003cbr\u003e\"As an appreciation of maps and open-ended time across cultures and eras, \u003ci\u003eTime in Maps \u003c\/i\u003eis a fine collection of scholarly essays and a thoughtfully organized book.\" * Journal of World History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating look at some of the many ways in which humans have tried to depict the passage of time in cartographic form. The handsome hardback is illustrated throughout with color images of historical maps... for those fascinated by the history and modern implications of map-making, it’s rewarding reading.\" * Fortean Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rather than taking an approach that would present an unfolding of innovation over time, [\u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a varied reach historically and geographically from chapter to chapter. It is the philosophical, political, and cultural dimensions that are the primary focus here for appreciating the importance of time in cartography.\" * Historical Geography *\u003cbr\u003e“As wide-ranging, imaginative, and revealing as the maps they discuss, these essays follow the trace laid down by the editors and William Rankin’s magisterial opening essay. They track how maps—interpreted broadly—convey time as well as space. GIS, they contend, has not rendered old paper maps obsolete as much as revealed their wonders—their dynamism, their depth, their metaphors, their techniques, and their connections to not only a physical world but to other intellectual endeavors. They convey the magic not only of maps but of scholarship.” * Richard White, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003e“What a relief to move beyond the worn dichotomy between maps and timelines, geography and history! \u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e shows definitively that maps brim with temporal references, both overt and subtle. They represent moments that range from one protest march to centuries of slavery, or a year’s erosion along Cape Cod to the deep time of geological eons. Cartographers’ visual strategies include encodings of time as much as symbolic representations of objects in space. Contrary to popular opinion, printed maps are anything but ‘static’ once one learns to recognize how they in fact hold time in the embrace of space. \u003ci\u003eTime in Maps \u003c\/i\u003eis a wonderful book, and one that is long overdue.” * Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on carefully curated images from Asia, the Americas, and Europe, \u003ci\u003eTime in Maps\u003c\/i\u003e offers a grand tour of cartographic cultures across epochs and continents, examining how human beings have used static maps to give palpable physicality to the seemingly ungraspable passing of time. Working in fields that remain deeply wedded to texts, the historians featured in this volume examine past attempts to visualize events, processes, distributions, and relations and to provide rich temporal stories in the form of two-dimensional graphics.\" * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume is a pleasure to read, with many well-selected maps and a high standard of reproduction.\" * New York Military Affairs Symposium *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Abby Smith Rumsey\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Maps Tell Time Caroline Winterer and Kären Wigen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century William Rankin\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Pacific Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan Kären Wigen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present Richard A. Pegg\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Atlantic World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: History in Maps from the Aztec Empire Barbara E. Mundy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Veronica Della Dora\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: A Map of Language Daniel Rosenberg\u003cbr\u003e Part III: The United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The First American Maps of Deep Time Caroline Winterer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States Susan Schulten\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War James R. Akerman\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732916973911,"sku":"9780226718590","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226718590.jpg?v=1719998939"},{"product_id":"cartographic-humanism-9780226816814","title":"Cartographic Humanism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePiechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Piechocki is conceptually rigorous, she reads many languages and her research is impeccable. She is a careful critic but also a deeply imaginative historian. This is a contribution to the 'darker side' of cartography and the Renaissance, emphasizing the relationship between writing and scholarship and the exercise of power and exploitation, but its analysis never departs from the measured and reflective.\" * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an ambitious book which convincingly achieves its goals. It makes great claims for Humanism, the Renaissance and especially for cartography in establishing a new idea of Europe, and presents detailed evidence for those claims in closely argued and highly detailed case studies.\" -- Michael Wintle * European History Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] timely book...well worth a read.\" * Journal of Historical Geography *\u003cbr\u003e“Through a close reading of literary texts, \u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e traces a shift in understanding of the shapes, meanings, relationships, and constituent parts of the globe. Piechocki’s linguistic range is astounding, and her fluid translations convey the poetry of the original passages. She has assembled a rich array of texts and images, and the imaginative ways in which she reads them add up to something new and compelling. She draws out their cartographic ideas and makes a convincing case for their centrality in defining both Europe and its swaggering presence across the globe. Her readings are fresh and energetic. The book will be a major contribution to literary and cultural studies and their intersection with the history of cartography.” -- Valerie A. Kivelson, author of Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia\u003cbr\u003e\"Katharina Piechocki’s \u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable book for scholars in many disciplines who think or write about cartography, Europeanness, or [the] Renaissance.\" * The Polish Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is the wonderful achievement of a major critic, scholar, literary historian and multicultural thinker. With wide-ranging scholarship, philological acuteness, sensitivity to textual and poetic nuance, and enviable linguistic ease in Latin, German, Polish, French, Italian, Spanish, English and Portuguese, Katharina Piechocki offers a new understanding of the sixteenth-century cartographic invention of Europe from a pot-pourri of real and imagined borderlands. In taut analyses of writers little studied outside specialist contexts or well-known but not as mappers of a new Europe—Conrad Celtis, Maciej Miechowita, Geoffroy Tory, Girolamo Fracastoro and Luís Vaz de Camões—Piechocki tracks a cartopoietic story that 'starts' with efforts to delimit central (Germanic), eastern (Polish or 'Sarmatic') and a core (French) 'Europe' from and against indeterminate or non-existent Asian, Mediterranean and African borders, passes through attempts to establish this 'place' against an also indeterminate other—'America' or 'not-Europe,' all intimately bound, in Fracastoro, to disease and\/or its cure and to the fictive imagination, and 'ends' with Camões’ nomad poetic imposition of a colonizing Mediterranean map on an age-old Indian Ocean one, a European cartography on and of the world. In the effervescent Renaissance scholarship of history as cartography Piechocki’s is a splendidly compelling new voice, one, too, that lets us see hitherto silent or 'peripheral' actors as key to modern Europe’s invention.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Timothy Reiss, author of Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this major intervention into the histories of cartography and literature asks what we mean when we say ‘Europe.’ Piechocki addresses this question—so urgent today—by exploring how early modern poets and mapmakers imagined interstitial geographies and, thus, Europe’s ever-changing borders and contact zones. Drawing from a rich multilingual archive of humanists from Germany, Poland, France, Italy, and Portugal, \u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e shows that Europe is not a monolith and never was. A must-read not only for scholars of early modernity, but for anyone who has ever said the word ‘Europe.’” -- Phillip John Usher, author of The Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply ambitious, exhaustively researched, and carefully argued book that covers a number of literary and historical issues in Renaissance European culture. Piechocki successfully brings together the unwieldy materials of language, local identification, a multidisciplinary approach, and temporal breadth, providing valuable insight into Latin humanist texts that undergird more familiar vernacular cartographic texts.” -- William J. Kennedy, author of Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\"Katharina N. Piechocki’s elegant and incisive new work on how an assemblage of sixteenth-century humanists took the classical designation of 'Europa' and transformed it from a loosely defined appendage to Asia’s landmass into a more sharply delineated territory with political and metaphysical overtones.\" * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"How did Europe emerge through pictorial maps, and what did early Renaissance maps and cartopoetics have to do with that emergence? \u003ci\u003eCartographic Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is an intertextual study of the history of cartography that looks at transnational spaces of fantasy and exploration, knowledge and emotion, and symbolic places and claimed discovery. . . .In this effervescent book of literary criticism and the map, there is much creative ground to be gained.\" * Austrian History Yearbook *\u003cbr\u003e\"Piechocki's study is a complex contribution to the study of the understanding of Europe in the Renaissance... Although this is never explicitly mentioned by the author herself, this book can also be understood as a serious examination of the reception of Ptolemaic geography in the 15th and 16th centuries... Piechocki's impressive contribution remeasures the broad field of early modern European research.\" * H-Soz-Kult (translated from German) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures A Note on Translations Introduction 1. Gridding Europe’s Navel: Conrad Celtis’s Quatuor Libri Amorum secundum Quatuor Latera Germanie (1502) 2. A Border Studies Manifesto: Maciej Miechowita’s Tractatus de Duabus Sarmatiis (1517) 3. The Alpha and the Alif: Continental Ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory’s Champ fleury (1529) 4. Syphilitic Borders and Continents in Flux: Girolamo Fracastoro’s Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus (1530) 5. Cartographic Curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic Poetics of Os Lusíadas (1572) Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732924412247,"sku":"9780226816814","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-indies-of-the-setting-sun-9780226820019","title":"The Indies of the Setting Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePadrón reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geographic vision of the Americas was not shared by all Europeans. While some imperialists imagined North and Central America as undiscovered land, the Spanish pushed to define the New World as part of a larger and eminently flexible geography that they called las Indias, and that by right, belonged to the Crown of Castile and León. Las Indias included all of the New World as well as East and Southeast Asia, although Spain's understanding of the relationship between the two areas changed as the realities of the Pacific Rim came into sharper focus. At first, the Spanish insisted that North and Central America were an extension of the continent of Asia. Eventually, they c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It should be essential reading for anyone seeking a fresh approach to understanding Spain’s imperial ambitions during the Age of Discovery.\" * The Portolan *\u003cbr\u003e\"Columbus thought that Cuba was an appendage of Asia, and, though it may surprise readers, it would be more than a century before more accurate accounts of the Pacific Ocean and the distinctions between the landforms of Asia and North America emerged. Padrón relays this story with comprehensive knowledge and a skillful interpretation of cartographic and narrative sources, which often rationalized Spanish imperial aims to show that the Spanish Empire had Asian components thanks to the world-encompassing meridian line that divided Spanish and Portuguese zones for exploitation. . . . This highly recommended book clarifies the history of seemingly naïve but at times politically useful sets of flawed assumptions.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a salutary book. . . . it is immensely valuable in making us see how sixteenth-century Spaniards conceptually framed the Americas, the Pacific and beyond; it literally takes us into another world.\" * The Globe: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"Historian Ricardo Padrón’s \u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West \u003c\/i\u003eattempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. . . . The book is a valuable contribution not only because of its rigorous and intelligent interpretations, but also because it invites us to think about two major issues. First, it shows that territories such as the Americas were not 'invented' once and for all but were revised and reinvented over time and from different places and communities. Second, the book reminds us that we must decenter our gaze from the battles of conquest and pay attention instead to the voyages and ways of understanding vast spaces such as the oceans that were key in politically configuring our modern experience of the globe.\" * Terrae Incognitae *\u003cbr\u003e\"In The Indies of the Setting Sun, Ricardo Padrón explores the spatial imaginaries of elite Spaniards in the period bookended by Balboa’s “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 in present- day Panama and the 1606 Spanish conquest of the Moluccas. \" * Early American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"With this work, Padrón demonstrates that the Pacific has been a fundamental issue in the invention of America, a process that, as he firmly asserts, 'has been repeatedly revised and reinvented over the course of the years, and has meant different things at different times in different discursive communities.' Padrón encourages readers to view the geopolitical imagination of Habsburg Spain in a different light and to rethink the possibilities offered by new approaches to consider the Pacific not as marginal, but as a central location of the Spanish empire.\" * Bulletin of the Comediantes *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and thoughtful study of the ‘invention’ and subsequent reinventions of the Pacific Ocean as part of the Spanish empire. Padrón brings to this project the same lucid, elegant prose and methodology that characterized his earlier monograph, and again he provides an argument supported by a careful study of sources employing the best historical approaches, closely contextualized reading, and an expansive definition of cartography. This is a much needed intervention, highlighting the importance of Spanish Asia in the history of Spanish imperial expansion.\" -- María M. Portuondo, author of The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e examines the way that Spanish knowledge about the South Sea—now known as the Pacific Ocean—was developed. Challenging the historical idea that Magellan's circumnavigation had established Europeans' understanding of the Americas as divided from Asia by the vast Pacific, Padrón reveals an 'alternative European cartography' that persisted across the sixteenth century. In this odd parallel universe, America was merely the forecourt to Asia, and the South Sea was a small basin within the larger Indies, then Spain's overseas empire. This is the first book I've ever read that colors the larger 'Indies' so vividly.\" -- Barbara Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City\u003cbr\u003e\"The author’s aim. . . is ambitious but the reader will not be disappointed. Padrón, in fact, leads his audience on a real journey through time, dismantling many commonplaces and prejudices about the modern perception of the way the world has been thought of and represented on maps at the dawn of modernity. The author breaks the patterns in the way we think about historical cartography between rigid categories of ‘right and wrong’, ‘precise and approximate’. Instead, Padrón highlights a complex historical process in which different cultural and political theories competed with each other in a dialectic that shaped our way of understanding geography. . . . Ricardo Padrón’s book: \u003ci\u003eThe Indies of the Setting Sun\u003c\/i\u003e should be welcomed as a useful and much needed book. . . . 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The book’s central strength is in its analytical acuity, which dredges up tensions, contradictions, ironies and ambivalence from multivalent cartographic and written texts.\" * Imago Mundi *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Map behind the Curtain\u003cbr\u003e 2 South Sea Dreams\u003cbr\u003e 3 Pacific Nightmares\u003cbr\u003e 4 Shipwrecked Ambitions\u003cbr\u003e 5 Pacific Conquests\u003cbr\u003e 6 The Location of China\u003cbr\u003e 7 The Kingdom of the Setting Sun\u003cbr\u003e 8 The Anxieties of a Paper Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732926771543,"sku":"9780226820019","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226820019.jpg?v=1719998980"},{"product_id":"a-a-draught-of-the-south-land-9780718897215","title":"A A Draught of the South Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first complete account of the various attempts to map New Zealand prior to 1773, spanning continents, peoples, empires and professions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive, engaging study highlights how curiosity and ambition drove the pioneering navigational achievements of two brilliant seamen, alongside the development of cartography as a strategic resource, an economic opportunity, and an emblem of western control. Moon reveals how Tasman and Cook gave New Zealand a name and a shape on the global map, while also local documenting local peoples' own methods of recording navigation, and their powerful sense of place. - Andrew Lambert FKC, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Kings College London The story of how our modern maps came to be is far more complicated and interesting than many suspect. Maps are the results of layers of knowledge, superimposed on one another; they are the results of political interest, editorial manipulation, courage, brutality and sympathy. Above all they are the result of cultures - often vastly different - colliding. Among all of these stories, that of the mapping of New Zealand is one of the finest, and here it is brilliantly told. - Sam Willis, Naval Historian and Television Presenter Paul Moon, who has been detailing the history of New Zealand Aotearoa for some years with a series of books, has now added to his oeuvre with one that neatly summarises the evolution of ideas about the location, size and shape of these islands from the theoretical ideas of sixteenth century European geographers to the charts produced by the likes of James Cook near the end of the eighteenth century. - John Robson, Quondam Map Librarian, University of Waikato Moon does not just dive into his topic; he sets the scene with chapters on the development of cartography, and one about the Dutch East India Company (known by the initials VOC from its Dutch name). 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The broad scope of previous editions is maintained, with even greater clarity of explanations from the revised text and extensively revised figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is popular with geophysics students, a result of its clear and concise style, the presentation of information a the level required for the earlier years of an undergraduate degree, and figures which are also clear and concise.\" \u003ci\u003eGeophysical Journal International on the second edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"No doubt that this volume will once again prove to be a classic textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in geology, geophysics, and for anyone interested in Earth Science.\" \u003ci\u003eThe EGGS, February 2003\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Overall...this is an excellent book and no doubt will continue to be recommended for many undergraduate courses.\" \u003ci\u003eGeological Magazine, August 2003\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The principles and limitations of geophysical exploration methods 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 The survey methods 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 The problem of ambiguity in geophysical interpretation 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 The structure of the book 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Geophysical data processing 8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Digitization of geophysical data 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Spectral analysis 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Waveform processing 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.1 Convolution 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.2 Deconvolution 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.3 Correlation 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Digital filtering 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5.1 Frequency filters 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5.2 Inverse (deconvolution) filters 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Imaging and modelling 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Elements of seismic surveying 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Stress and strain 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Seismic waves 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.1 Body waves 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.2 Surface waves 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.3 Waves and rays 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Seismic wave velocities of rocks 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Attenuation of seismic energy along ray paths 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Ray paths in layered media 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.1 Reflection and transmission of normally incident seismic rays 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.2 Reflection and refraction of obliquely incident rays 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.3 Critical refraction 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.4 Diffraction 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Reflection and refraction surveying 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Seismic data acquisition systems 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.1 Seismic sources and the seismic\/acoustic spectrum 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.2 Seismic transducers 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.3 Seismic recording systems 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Seismic reflection surveying 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Geometry of reflected ray paths 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.1 Single horizontal reflector 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.2 Sequence of horizontal reflectors 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.3 Dipping reflector 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.4 Ray paths of multiple reflections 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The reflection seismogram 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1 The seismic trace 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2 The shot gather 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.3 The CMP gather 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Multichannel reflection survey design 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.1 Vertical and horizontal resolution 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.2 Design of detector arrays 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.3 Common mid-point (CMP) surveying 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.4 Display of seismic reflection data 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Time corrections applied to seismic traces 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Static correction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Velocity analysis 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Filtering of seismic data 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8.1 Frequency filtering 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8.2 Inverse filtering (deconvolution) 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8.3 Velocity filtering 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Migration of reflection data 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 3D seismic reflection surveys 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 Three component (3C) seismic reflection surveys 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.12 4D seismic reflection surveys 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.13 Vertical seismic profiling 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.14 Interpretation of seismic reflection data 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.14.1 Structural analysis 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.14.2 Stratigraphical analysis (seismic stratigraphy) 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.14.3 Seismic modelling 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.14.4 Seismic attribute analysis 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.15 Single-channel marine reflection profiling 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.15.1 Shallow marine seismic sources 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.15.2 Sidescan sonar systems 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.16 Applications of seismic reflection surveying 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Seismic refraction surveying 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Geometry of refracted ray paths: planar interfaces 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.1 Two-layer case with horizontal interface 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.2 Three-layer case with horizontal interface 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.3 Multilayer case with horizontal interfaces 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.4 Dipping-layer case with planar interfaces 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.5 Faulted planar interfaces 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Profile geometries for studying planar layer problems 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Geometry of refracted ray paths: irregular (non-planar) interfaces 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.1 Delay time 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.2 The plus–minus interpretation method 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.3 The generalized reciprocal method 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Construction of wavefronts and ray-tracing 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 The hidden and blind layer problems 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Refraction in layers of continuous velocity change 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Methodology of refraction profiling 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8.1 Field survey arrangements 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8.2 Recording scheme 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8.3 Weathering and elevation corrections 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8.4 Display of refraction seismograms 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Other methods of refraction surveying 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.10 Seismic tomography 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11 Applications of seismic refraction surveying 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11.1 Engineering and environmental surveys 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11.2 Hydrological surveys 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11.3 Crustal seismology 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11.4 Two-ship seismic surveying: combined refraction and reflection surveying 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Gravity surveying 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Basic theory 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Units of gravity 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Measurement of gravity 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Gravity anomalies 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Gravity anomalies of simple-shaped bodies 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Gravity surveying 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Gravity reduction 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.1 Drift correction 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.2 Latitude correction 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.3 Elevation corrections 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.4 Tidal correction 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.5 Eötvös correction 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.6 Free-air and Bouguer anomalies 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Rock densities 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10 Interpretation of gravity anomalies 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10.1 The inverse problem 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10.2 Regional fields and residual anomalies 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10.3 Direct interpretation 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10.4 Indirect interpretation 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.11 Elementary potential theory and potential field manipulation 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.12 Applications of gravity surveying 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Magnetic surveying 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Basic concepts 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Rock magnetism 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 The geomagnetic field 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Magnetic anomalies 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Magnetic surveying instruments 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6.1 Introduction 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6.2 Fluxgate magnetometer 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6.3 Proton magnetometer 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6.4 Optically pumped magnetometer 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6.5 Magnetic gradiometers 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Ground magnetic surveys 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Aeromagnetic and marine surveys 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9 Reduction of magnetic observations 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9.1 Diurnal variation correction 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9.2 Geomagnetic correction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9.3 Elevation and terrain corrections 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10 Interpretation of magnetic anomalies 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10.1 Introduction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10.2 Direct interpretation 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10.3 Indirect interpretation 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.11 Potential field transformations 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.12 Applications of magnetic surveying 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Electrical surveying 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Resistivity method 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.1 Introduction 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.2 Resistivities of rocks and minerals 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.3 Current flow in the ground 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.4 Electrode spreads 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.5 Resistivity surveying equipment 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.6 Interpretation of resistivity data 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.7 Vertical electrical sounding interpretation 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.8 Constant separation traversing interpretation 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.9 Limitations of the resistivity method 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.10 Applications of resistivity surveying 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Induced polarization (IP) method 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.1 Principles 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.2 Mechanisms of induced polarization 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.3 Induced polarization measurements 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.4 Field operations 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.5 Interpretation of induced polarization data 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.6 Applications of induced polarization surveying 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Self-potential (SP) method 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.1 Introduction 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.2 Mechanism of self-potential 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.3 Self-potential equipment and survey procedure 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.4 Interpretation of self-potential anomalies 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Electromagnetic surveying 208\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Depth of penetration of electromagnetic fields 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Detection of electromagnetic fields 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Tilt-angle methods 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.1 Tilt-angle methods employing local transmitters 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.2 The VLF method 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.3 The AFMAG method 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Phase measuring systems 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Time-domain electromagnetic surveying 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Non-contacting conductivity measurement 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8 Airborne electromagnetic surveying 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8.1 Fixed separation systems 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8.2 Quadrature systems 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9 Interpretation of electromagnetic data 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.10 Limitations of the electromagnetic method 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.11 Telluric and magnetotelluric field methods 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.11.1 Introduction 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.11.2 Surveying with telluric currents 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.11.3 Magnetotelluric surveying 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.12 Ground-penetrating radar 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.13 Applications of electromagnetic surveying 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Radiometric surveying 231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Radioactive decay 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Radioactive minerals 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Instruments for measuring radioactivity 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.1 Geiger counter 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.2 Scintillation counter 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.3 Gamma-ray spectrometer 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.4 Radon emanometer 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Field surveys 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Example of radiometric surveying 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Geophysical borehole logging 236\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction to drilling 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Principles of well logging 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Formation evaluation 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Resistivity logging 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.1 Normal log 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.2 Lateral log 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.3 Laterolog 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.4 Microlog 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.5 Porosity estimation 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.6 Water and hydrocarbon saturation estimation 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.7 Permeability estimation 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.8 Resistivity dipmeter log 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Induction logging 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Self-potential logging 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7 Radiometric logging 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.1 Natural gamma radiation log 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.2 Gamma-ray density log 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.3 Neutron–gamma-ray log 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.8 Sonic logging 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.9 Temperature logging 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.10 Magnetic logging 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.10.1 Magnetic log 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.10.2 Nuclear magnetic resonance log 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.11 Gravity logging 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: SI c.g.s. and Imperial (customary USA) units and conversion factors 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 257\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865459568983,"sku":"9780632049295","price":55.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780632049295.jpg?v=1722274064"},{"product_id":"hypercities-9780674725348","title":"HyperCities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a physical space, a hypercity is a 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Here at last is the remarkable story of the creation of the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. What it reveals is a colourful and engrossing secret history of the Ordnance Survey and the obsessive and ambitious men who dreamt and delivered it. The Ordnance Survey's story is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It makes for an engaging and page-turning account of one of the great untold British adventure stories, following those intrepid individuals who lugged brass theodolites up mountains to make the country visible to itself for the first time. 'This is a brilliant book, and it's astonishing that no one has thought of writing it before... History at its best' A N Wilson, Reader's Digest 'Endlessly absorbing... 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As Kaplan shows, the view from above can be appropriated by artists and activists to challenge military claims and call attention to the suffering on the ground. She herself takes a view from higher above to critique drone warfare.\" -- Jason Pearl * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fascinating history which [Kaplan] illustrates with well-chosen images sprinkled throughout the text. She shows that while the aerial perspective is far from new, contemporary viewers almost always find it fresh and consider the view from the heavens to be particularly revealing.\" -- Neta C. 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It is sufficiently detailed for specialists, whilst remaining accessible to enthusiasts....Provides one of the most interesting histories of cartography and mapping that I have read....An important contribution; the arguments Wood presents are compelling, and made more so by his writing style. In an era when maps are ubiquitous, disposable, and can be created by more people than ever, Wood's insights are of increasing importance. 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