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A space dedicated to the heritage of cartography and maps especially -but not only- from the view point of modern digital information and communication technologies
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New books received
A paper on Holy Mount Athos cartography
- A paper on Holy Mt Athos appeared in the last issue of "Imago Mundi" by Veronica della Dora, lecturer at University of Bistol.
- "Mapping a Holy Quasi-Island: Mount Athos in Early Renaissance Isolarii", Imago Mundi, Vol. 60, part 2: 139-165
- Contact author
Les cartes portolanes
- By Ramon J. Pujades, 2007: A large format 526 pages book in Catalan with an extended text in English, published in 2007 by the Institut Cartografic de Catalunya, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans Barcelona and the Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania
- Chapters: 1. Stimulus and substratum: Maritime trade and written culture in the transition from the full to the low middle ages; 2. Survival and possession: the problem of representativity of the preserved works; 3. Uses and users of medieval naytical charts; 4. The production process; 5. Cartographers and their ateliers; 6.The birth of medieval nautical cartography.
- An impressive work with rich illustration and a new look on the origin and the importance of medieval portolan maps representing the Mediterranean "...a Ploughed Sea..."
- With a CD-ROM
- ISBN 978-84-393-7576-0; ISBN 978-84-9785-414-6
- Contact: www.icc.cat
Maps & Histories. Greek topographies in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
- The new book by George Tolias (May 2008) is a collection of papers on the spatial perception of Greece in European cartography.
- It is the second book in the series "Trips with maps in places and utopiae"; Ziti Publications (www.ziti.gr).
- In Greek, 256 pages, 14.5X20.5 cm, ISBN 978-960-456-101-8
- Order: sales@ziti.gr
Cartografia morale.
- A book by Giorgio Mangani on the geography, persuasion and identity of old cartography.
- A fascinating reading on the moral, intellectuall, ideological, religious and perceptual value of maps.
- 2006, Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena, ISBN 88-8290-818-6, pages 255,
Map Projections
- The new book on map projections by Erik Grafarend and Friedrich Krumm from Stuttgart
- A "must" for those studying cartographic representations (from the roots) and/or applying the tools of mapping curvilinear surfaces onto a plane. 21 chapters, 10 appendices and an extended bibliography in 713 pages, with 230 figures.
- Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-36701-2
- Contact the authors:
- Grafarend
- Krumm
Antonio Millo Isolario
- The manuscript Isolario by Antonio Millo, dedicated to Signor Sforza Palavicino (1582) was recently published in Greece, thanks to the collector Sylvia Ioannou, possesor of the original.
- Book Review
- A 300 pages high quality volume, Millo's isolario is reproduced in facsimile (the original italian text is transcribed for easier reading), with translations in Greek and in English.
- More: In this blog, 09 Jan. 2007
- ISBN 978-960-87792-2-8, Athens 2006, 205x280 mm
- Contact
Metron Geometrikon
- D. Rossikopoulos
- A history of surveying instruments and measurements (in Greek), 293 p., 240x300 mm, paperback
- Thessaloniki, 2006, Ziti Publ.
- ISBN 960-456-009-3
- Book review
- mailto:sales@ziti.gr
Cyprus 1542. The Great Map of the Island by Leonida Attar
- F. Cavazzana Romanelli and G. Grivaud
- A study of the up to now unedited map of Cyprus by the Cypriot engineer Leonida Attar (1542). Pages 147, with a cd-rom.
- Nicosia, 2006, The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
- ISBN 9963-42-848-7
- Book review
- lefki.michaelidou@cultural.bankofcyprus.com
Fra Mauro's World Map
- Piero Falchetta
- The book aims at an analysis and an in-depth study of this important document (dated 1450) offering the reader an understanding within its contemporary cultural framework. Pages 830 with a cd-rom.
- ISBN 2-503-51726-9
- Book review
- info@brepols.net
Blog archive
Was the Little Prince a map enthusiast?
The big questions in cartographer's maputopia, 1
...or was he a map skeptic?
The big questions in cartographer's maputopia, 2
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