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Maps depict the development of people's ideas about the earth, and reveal how their world was portrayed, from Ptolemy to a modern map constructed from satellite photographs.
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Peter Whitfield is former director of Stanfords International Map Centre in London. He is also the author of Cities of the World, New Found Lands, Astrology, The Mapping of the Heavens, The Charting of the Oceans, Landmarks in Western Science, Sir Francis Drake, and London: A Life in Maps, the last also published by the British Library.
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- PublisherBritish Library
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0712345329
- ISBN 13 9780712345323
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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