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The history of cartography has undergone a revolution in terms of disciplinary expectations and academic production. One of the principal figures behind this shift, Brian Harley, explored the relationship between cartography, knowledge, and power ...
Sebastían Días Angel.
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GEOGRAFIA E REPRESENTAÇÕES GRÁFICAS: UMA BREVE ABORDAGEM CRÍTICA E OS NOVOS DESAFIOS TÉCNICO-METODOLÓGICOS PERPASSANDO PELA CLIMATOLOGIA [PDF]
The present paper makes a review approach of relation between graphics representations and geographic researches, relates the history of the mistakes' origin in the consideration of the Cartography, of the mathematical proceeding and of the technical ...
Isorlanda Caracristi
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Built-up area is a particularly important element of the content of topographic maps. Its presentation changes significantly when map scales are reduced, due to both conceptual and graphic generalization.
Ostrowski Wiesław +2 more
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Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara
The book published by Henri Duveyrier in 1864 under the title Tuaregs of the North included a 1/3000000 scale map which was considered for decades as the reference map of the Sahara.
Dominique Casajus
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The Topographic Chart of the Kingdom of Poland (pol. Topograficzna Karta Królestwa Polskiego, commonly referred to as ‘the Quartermaster’s Map’, hereinafter: TKKP) is the first Polish modern topographic map of Poland (1:126,000, 1843).
Jakub Kuna +2 more
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Ancient civilizations’ territorial borders analyzed through their cosmogonies
This paper compares the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamian civilizations’ concept of borders and their relation with the spaces they transformed through a comparative approach of selected ancient civilizations, putting these cosmogonies into a ...
Guido Cimadomo +2 more
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The field of historical cartography has been widely developed over the past 30 years, with an increasing number of works using historical maps as sources for understanding the processes of the social and economic history of a place at a given time.
José Rogério Beier, Daniel Marhtin
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The 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography was held in the Marina congress centre in Helsinki, capital of Finland, from June 30 to July 5, 2013.
Marina Viličić, Miljenko Lapaine
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The history of cartography is replete with errors of difficult correction. Maps with dating and authorship bearing apocryphal luggage, the copies that remain ritually original content, the well or malicious-intentioned occultation data, references to ...
Alfredo Faus Prieto
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The History of Cartography, Volume Six; Cartography in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
The publication of volume six of The History of Cartography is a momentous occasion. Monmonier, its editor, has the right blend of general and specialist knowledge to make this a very special volum...
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