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The author explores the colorful history of mapmaking, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the ideas and idealism that influenced cartography, from the Greeks who used information gleaned from Alexander the Great's conquests to improve their maps to the medievalists, who lost the Greek knowledge of the spherical earth.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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John Rennie Short is a professor of Geography at the University of Maryland, and is a leading authority in geographic studies.
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- VerlagFirefly Books Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum2003
- ISBN 10 1552978117
- ISBN 13 9781552978115
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten224
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