Art and Cartography
Subtitle: Six Historical Essays (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780226907222
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History of science; Cartography; Technical Illustration; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Art / History / General; Science / Geography; Illustrations; Maps
First sentence: If the Italian-inspired Renaissance were a modern Madison Avenue corporation and applied to the Patent Office for a registered trademark, it would certainly choose as its letterhead logotype that famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci entitled Man in a Circle and a Square (fig. 1.1).