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Author: John P. Snyder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997-12-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0226767477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9780374292782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
Author: Jeffrey B. Russell
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1997-01-30
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the facts behind the deceiving myths that have been professed about Columbus and his time.
Author: Mary Terrall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-05-05
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0226793621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelf-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, cafés, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked. Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture. “Terrall’s work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language.”—Virginia Dawson, American Historical Review Winner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Author: L M Bugayevskiy
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1995-06-28
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780748403042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMap projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form, be that two-dimensional paper or two- or three- dimensional electronic representations. The central focus of this book is on the theory of map projections. Mathematical cartography also takes in map scales and their variation, the division of maps into sets of sheets and nomenclature, and addresses the problems of making measurements and conducting investigations which make use of geodetic measurements and the development of graphical methods for solving problems of spherical trigonometry, marine- and aeronavigation, astronomy and even crystallography.
Author: Harm J. De Blij
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199754322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively.
Author: Paul A. LaViolette
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2005-10-25
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781591430520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "Earth Under Fire, " Paul LaViolette investigates the connection between ancient world catastrophe myths and modern scientific evidence of a galactic destruction cycle, demonstrating how past civilizations accurately recorded the causes of these cataclysmic events, knowledge of which may be crucial for the human race to survive the next catastrophic superwave cycle.
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0141036664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFriedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy, which he calls 'Code-Green', is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating - it is what we need to make us all healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.
Author: Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 022667486X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMap making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Author: Doris Piserchia
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0575133589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Earth teemed with life of all kinds, and many besides man had intelligence and the gift of speech. But chaos ruled. And violence. And despair. Then, in the Valley of the Dead, Sheen first entered the world, and all of the life would bend to the might of the Supreme One before the final push to the stars.
