About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Atlases, Cartography, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, History of cartography, Virtual globe, List of atlases, Geography, Melway, International Cloud Atlas, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, The Times Atlas of World History, Planetary cartography, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology atlases, Dell'Arcano del Mare, Atlas do Visconde de Santarem, DeLorme, Thomas Guide, Times Atlas of the World, HistoAtlas, Catalan Atlas, Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, Insight Guides, The Atlas of Global Inequalities, Universal Publishers, Hudud al-'alam, North American Environmental Atlas, Historical atlas, Our Dumb World, Geographer's A-Z Street Atlas, Klencke Atlas, Stielers Handatlas, Bosatlas, Topographic Atlas of Switzerland, Oregon Geographic Names, Terrafly, Historical Atlas of China, Lafreri atlases, The Historical Atlas of China, Atlas Maior, Westermann Verlag, Historical Atlas of South Asia, Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger, Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano, Mitchell's School Atlas, Wind atlas, Atlante Veneto, Historical Atlas of the World, Atlas Mira, Western Australia - an atlas of human endeavour, Speculum Orbis Terrae, National Atlas of the United States, World Atlas of Language Structures, Atlas of the British Flora, Historical Atlas of the American West, Macmillan Bible Atlas, Atlas of Our Changing Environment, England's Gazetteer, Gran Atlas Aguilar, Pergamon World Atlas. Excerpt: Cartography (from Greek chartis, "map"; and graphein, "write"), or mapmaking, has been an integral part of the human story for a long time, possibly up to 8,000 years. From cave paintings to ancient maps of Babylon, Greece, and Asia, through the Age of Exploration, and on into the 21st century, people have created and used maps as the essential tools to help them define, explain, and navigate their way through the wo...
