Sheets of Many Colours: The Mapping of Ireland's Rocks, 1750-1890.

Davies, Gordon L. Herries

ISBN 10: 0860270149 ISBN 13: 9780860270140

Published by Royal Dublin Society, 1983

Language: English

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Sheets of Many Colours: The Mapping of Ireland's Rocks, 1750-1890.

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Royal Dublin Society

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1983

Language

English

ISBN 10

0860270149

ISBN 13

9780860270140

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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First edition. Introduction discusses the pioneers in the field of cartography, beginning with Susanna Drury's gouaches of the natural phenomenon of the Giant's Causeway in 1740, which were later the basis for widely circulated engravings by Fran�ois Vivar�s--these were among the first studies of the natural rock formations of Ireland. Subsequent chapters analyze the work of individual cartographers, from Richard Griffith's map 1809-1830 to the apotheosis of mapping with the Geological Survey of Ireland of 1869-1890. Well illustrated with black and white plates, color prints interspersed throughout. Issued as part of series, Historical Studies in Irish Science and Technology, number 4. Dust jacket creased. xiv, 242 pages. cloth, dust jacket. large 8vo..

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