The Atlas of Atlases: Exploring the Most Important Atlases in History and the Cartographers who Made Them
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The Atlas of Atlases considers the origin and development of the atlas,from its distant beginnings in mankind’s first attempts to map the world inthe ancient Near East in the fifth millennium BC (thus long predating theHeracles story), to the digital mapping systems of today which can create abespoke map of a region in seconds, a task that once would have taken atrained cartographer months to complete.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Philip Parker
- Language
- English
- Series
- Liber Historica
- ISBN
- 9780711268050
- Release date
- 2022
