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- catalog abstract "A history of cartography tracing the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has mapped the earth's surface and interior, the ocean's floors, and the moon and planets.".
- catalog contributor b1497647.
- catalog created "1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1981.".
- catalog description "1. Prologue at Dana Butte -- The map idea -- The librarian who measured earth -- First principles of Ptolemy -- The topography of myth and dogma -- 1492 -- Mercator squares the circle -- 2. Yaki Point -- The matter of a degree -- The family that mapped France -- John Harrison's timepiece -- Surveyors of sea and shore -- Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey -- Mapping America: the boundary makers -- Mapping America: westward the topographers -- meters, meridians, and a new world map".
- catalog description "3. Bright Angel Point -- The winged mappers -- Radar over the Amazon -- Deep horizons -- A continent beneath the ice -- Mountains of the sea -- Transcontinental precision -- Maps for the new geography -- Part 4: The flight out -- Mapping from space -- Extraterrestrial mapping: the moon -- Extraterrestrial mapping: Mars.".
- catalog description "A history of cartography tracing the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has mapped the earth's surface and interior, the ocean's floors, and the moon and planets.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [391]-404.".
- catalog extent "xi, 414 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mapmakers.".
- catalog identifier "0394461940 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mapmakers.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Mapmakers.".
- catalog subject "Cartography History.".
- catalog subject "GA105.3 .W49 1981".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Prologue at Dana Butte -- The map idea -- The librarian who measured earth -- First principles of Ptolemy -- The topography of myth and dogma -- 1492 -- Mercator squares the circle -- 2. Yaki Point -- The matter of a degree -- The family that mapped France -- John Harrison's timepiece -- Surveyors of sea and shore -- Soldiers, pundits, and the India survey -- Mapping America: the boundary makers -- Mapping America: westward the topographers -- meters, meridians, and a new world map".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Bright Angel Point -- The winged mappers -- Radar over the Amazon -- Deep horizons -- A continent beneath the ice -- Mountains of the sea -- Transcontinental precision -- Maps for the new geography -- Part 4: The flight out -- Mapping from space -- Extraterrestrial mapping: the moon -- Extraterrestrial mapping: Mars.".
- catalog title "The mapmakers / by John Noble Wilford.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".