Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination
Cosgrove, Denis E.2001
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An examination of the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. It traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age.
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Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.
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xiii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-317) and index.
ISBN:
9780801864919
Dewey class:
910.9
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English
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BRN:
2091887