The mapmakers
By: by John Noble Wilford.
Edition: Rev. ed., 2nd Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780375708503
Subjects: Cartography -- History
Notes: Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1981. Rev. ed. published in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-491) and index.
Table of contents: title: The map idea; title: The librarian who measured Earth; title: First principles by Ptolemy; title: The topography of myth and dogma; title: 1492; title: Mercator squares the circle; title: The matter of a degree; title: The family that mapped France; title: John Harrison's timepiece; title: Surveyors of sea and shore; title: Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey; title: Mapping America : the boundary makers; title: Mapping America : westward the topographers; title: Meters, meridians, and a new world map; title: The winged mappers; title: Radar over the Amazon; title: Deep horizon; title: A continent beneath the ice; title: Mountains of the sea; title: Base lines across a continent; title: Geodesy from space; title: Mapping from space; title: Dynamic maps : a new geography; title: Extraterrestrial mapping : the Moon; title: Extraterrestrial mapping : Mars; title: Cosmic cartographers.