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Seeing Through Maps: The Power Of Images To Shape Our World View

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This NEW book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Its got over 70 illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, a Toronto-centered equidistant map of the world, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading . We've reproduced a redrawing of Mercator's original world map and have the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective projection. It a book designed to reveal the "hidden agendas" of maps. BUT its a book about far more than cartography -- it shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of DIFFERENT perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view .

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Paperback

Publisher: O D T Inc

Release: September 15, 2001

ISBN: 1931057001

ISBN 13: 9781931057004

Seeing Through Maps: The Power Of Images To Shape Our World View

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This NEW book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Its got over 70 illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, a Toronto-centered equidistant map of the world, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading . We've reproduced a redrawing of Mercator's original world map and have the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective projection. It a book designed to reveal the "hidden agendas" of maps. BUT its a book about far more than cartography -- it shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of DIFFERENT perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view .

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Paperback

Publisher: O D T Inc

Release: September 15, 2001

ISBN: 1931057001

ISBN 13: 9781931057004

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