On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does

Forword: For the Love of Maps   Dava Sobel Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself [rtoc] What Great Minds Knew: How the ancient Greeks – Erastothenes and Ptolomy – first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it The Men Who Sold the World: The day Britain’s greatest cartographic treasure …

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