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Mapping the airways
Maps have long held a fascination for travellers and would-be travellers alike. Drawing on fascinating and unique material from the BA archive, curator Paul Jarvis focusses on the beautiful map artworks used over nearly 100 years of history to promote the airline's services - from early adverts to twenty-first-century on-board moving maps - and the vital maps and charts used by pilots and navigators. The progression of artistic styles used through the decades and the use of maps, actual or stylised, to present factual information or to encourage the use of air services is presented in striking full colour. Authorised by British Airways and with a foreword by Keith Williams, the Executive Chairman of British Airways, this book shows how we have charted our voyages through the skies and the enduring power of maps to spark our imagination.
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Lies of the Land
Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic
roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an
original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their
relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking.
Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were
painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective-and in
the careful study of nature that we associate with early
modernity-they also learned the more expressive and imaginative
Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period.
Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to
create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide
variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk
explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave
together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales.
Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective,
Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated
the appearance and reception of cartographic objects.
Lies of the Land is an important new
assessment of the character and status of early modern cartography
that challenges binary distinctions between art and science and
between decorative and epistemic images. It will appeal especially
to art historians and historians of sixteenth-century France as
well as scholars of map history.
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Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic world, 1100-1500 : divergent traditions
Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.
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Edinburgh : mapping the city
Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This lavishly illustrated book features 71 maps of Edinburgh which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about the political, commercial and social life of Scotland and her capital. Many are reproduced in book form for the first time. Together, they present a fascinating insight into how Edinburgh has changed and developed over the last 500 years, and will appeal to all those with an interest in Edinburgh and Scottish history, as well as anyone interested in urban history, architectural history, town planning or the history of cartography.
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Using open-source software GRASS GIS for analysis of the environmental patterns in Lake Chad, Central Africa
Lake Chad, situated in the semi-arid region of African Sahel, plays a vital role in hydrogeological balance of regional ecosystems. It presents an essential water source and provides a habitat for rare wildlife species including migrating waterbirds. However, the lake has shrunk significantly since the 1960s and has continued to reduce in size and extent during recent decades. Trends in drying and shrinking of Lake Chad are caused by environmental factors and changed climate. The desiccation of the lake is threatening environmental sustainability. This study focused on identification of changes in the Chad Lake area, wetland extent, and associated land cover types. The methods include the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Geographic Information System (GIS) for remote sensing data classification. The maximum likelihood discriminant analysis classifier was applied for analysis of multispectral Landsat 8–9 OLI/TIRS images in 2013, 2017, and 2022. Detected changes in land cover types reflect variations in water balance and wetland area and extent around Lake Chad over recent decades. Cartographic scripting tools of GRASS GIS provide an efficient method of digital image processing for monitoring endorheic lakes of Central Africa. GRASS GIS methods provide an opportunity to automatically classify Earth observation data with cartographic scripts for environmental monitoring.
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Mapping Greece, 1420-1800 : a history : maps in the Margarita Samourkas Collection
\"Illustrated history of the cartography of Greece during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Examines cartographic tradition, surveying technology, and map production as it changed over time. Contains a detailed catalogue of the 1,700 maps of Greece in the Margarita Samourka Map Collection\"--Provided by publisher.
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Re-Choreographing Cortical and Cartographic Maps
A substantial contribution to current discourses in dance, choreography and performance, especially in the area of Practice-as-Research. Reflects the perspective of the author as scholar, choreographer, performer, and arts practitioner, with an extensive background in both the professional world of dance and the intellectual academy. 49 b&w illlus. Click here to view the free chapter: 'An Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In'.
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Connecticut : mapping the Nutmeg State through history
Connecticut: mapping the Nutmeg State through history provides a fascinating journey into the state's past through more than fifty full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress.
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Singing the Trail
The very first maps were oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers which were waypoints, described as 'survey pegs of memory', lists of places in songs, chants, karakia and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, the Dutch Abel Tasman sailed here and made the first attempt at a physical map; followed more than 100 years later by Cook, whose map was much more detailed as he circumnavigated the country. Once the detail of the coastline was filled in, more detailed maps of the interior were made by those in search of resources to exploit. A clever look at New Zealand history and also at the intriguing tradition of map making. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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