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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mapping the Past
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004467351
This book demonstrates the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical, and political contexts in which they were made.
Author : Gretchen Peterson
Publisher : Petersongis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0692670939
Did you always want to try coloring your own map? Now you can! With over 40 bird's-eye view maps to color from all the largest metropolitan areas in the world, you'll get plenty of cartographic practice. These amazing city maps feature real building and road outlines at scale. Close-up locations such as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Grand Canal in Venice, and Central Park in New York City are included. Also discover surprising and beautiful locations such as the Lotus Temple in New Delhi and Bidhannagar in Kolkata.Color major cities in a unique format with the colors that bring them to life for you.Brimming with 44 maps over 94 pages, many with high levels of intricacy.Printed on one side of each page.Perfect for travelers, design fans, map lovers, classrooms, and mindfulness enthusiasts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004467361
Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographical regions and periods. Connected by their focus on the (hand)colouring of the examined maps, the authors demonstrate the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical and political context in which they were made. Contributors are: Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde, Jörn Seemann, Tomasz Panecki, Chet Van Duzer, Marian Coman, Anne Christine Lien, Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadja Danilenko, Sang-hoon Jang, Anna Boroffka, Stephanie Zehnle, Haida Liang, Sotiria Kogou, Luke Butler, Elke Papelitzky, Richard Pegg, Lucia Pereira Pardo, Neil Johnston, Rose Mitchell, and Annaleigh Margey.
Author : Diana Lange,Oliver Hahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545625
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours are also an important aspect of a map’s materiality. The material scientific analysis of colourants makes it possible to find out more about maps’ material nature and their production as well as the social, geographical and political context in which they were made. ‘Reading’ colours in this way gives a glimpse into the social lives of mapmakers as well as map users and reveals the complexity of the historical and social context in which maps were produced and how the maps were actually made.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015069191719
Author : Robin J. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0691120234
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound thousands of puzzlers for more than a century. This is the amazing story of how the "map problem" was solved. The problem posed in the letter came from a former student: What is the least possible number of colors needed to fill in any map (real or invented) so that neighboring counties are always colored differently? This deceptively simple question was of minimal interest to cartographers, who saw little need to limit how many colors they used. But the problem set off a frenzy among professional mathematicians and amateur problem solvers, among them Lewis Carroll, an astronomer, a botanist, an obsessive golfer, the Bishop of London, a man who set his watch only once a year, a California traffic cop, and a bridegroom who spent his honeymoon coloring maps. In their pursuit of the solution, mathematicians painted maps on doughnuts and horseshoes and played with patterned soccer balls and the great rhombicuboctahedron. It would be more than one hundred years (and countless colored maps) later before the result was finally established. Even then, difficult questions remained, and the intricate solution--which involved no fewer than 1,200 hours of computer time--was greeted with as much dismay as enthusiasm. Providing a clear and elegant explanation of the problem and the proof, Robin Wilson tells how a seemingly innocuous question baffled great minds and stimulated exciting mathematics with far-flung applications. This is the entertaining story of those who failed to prove, and those who ultimately did prove, that four colors do indeed suffice to color any map.
Author : RJ Andrews
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781119483908
How do we create new ways of looking at the world? Join award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews as he pushes beyond the usual how-to, and takes you on an adventure into the rich art of informing. Creating Info We Trust is a craft that puts the world into forms that are strong and true. It begins with maps, diagrams, and charts — but must push further than dry defaults to be truly effective. How do we attract attention? How can we offer audiences valuable experiences worth their time? How can we help people access complexity? Dark and mysterious, but full of potential, data is the raw material from which new understanding can emerge. Become a hero of the information age as you learn how to dip into the chaos of data and emerge with new understanding that can entertain, improve, and inspire. Whether you call the craft data storytelling, data visualization, data journalism, dashboard design, or infographic creation — what matters is that you are courageously confronting the chaos of it all in order to improve how people see the world. Info We Trust is written for everyone who straddles the domains of data and people: data visualization professionals, analysts, and all who are enthusiastic for seeing the world in new ways. This book draws from the entirety of human experience, quantitative and poetic. It teaches advanced techniques, such as visual metaphor and data transformations, in order to create more human presentations of data. It also shows how we can learn from print advertising, engineering, museum curation, and mythology archetypes. This human-centered approach works with machines to design information for people. Advance your understanding beyond by learning from a broad tradition of putting things “in formation” to create new and wonderful ways of opening our eyes to the world. Info We Trust takes a thoroughly original point of attack on the art of informing. It builds on decades of best practices and adds the creative enthusiasm of a world-class data storyteller. Info We Trust is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of original compositions designed to illuminate the craft, delight the reader, and inspire a generation of data storytellers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015071099397
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1826 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112081497460
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078875212
Author : Katharine A. Harmon,Gayle Clemans
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1568987625
This work is filled with 350 works by well-known artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Olafer Eliasson. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.
Author : Laura Peetoom,Paul Heersink
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443104937
Where in the world are you? Learn to read, understand and create maps. Maps are pictures of places. They can be printed on paper or shown on a screen. A map shows you how to get around in a place that is unfamiliar. A map can even tell you new things about a place you know. What is a map, anyway? How do they work? Maps and Mapping for Canadian Kids will walk kids through elements of a map. By discussing concepts such as scale, symbols, and colour, they'll see how maps work and how to read them. Basic principles of navigation explain how early explorers and navigators were able to chart the world, and Canada in particular. A special section on David Thompson highlights the achievements of this great Canadian cartographer.
Author : Karl R. Gegenfurtner,Lindsay T. Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052100439X
Color Vision, first published in 2000, defines the state of knowledge about all aspects of human and primate color vision.
Author : Cynthia A. Brewer
Publisher : Esri Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015062850444
Malnutrition is still haunting million of children worldwide. Adding US$10.3 billion to current efforts would benefit 360 million children worldwide and prevent 1.1 million child deaths. Since early childhood is a particularly critical development stage, investments ought to focus the pre-pregnancyphase until two years of age.
Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226029009
Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must. The second edition is updated with the addition of two new chapters, 10 color plates, and a new foreword by renowned geographer H. J. de Blij. One new chapter examines the role of national interest and cultural values in national mapping organizations, including the United States Geological Survey, while the other explores the new breed of multimedia, computer-based maps. To show how maps distort, Monmonier introduces basic principles of mapmaking, gives entertaining examples of the misuse of maps in situations from zoning disputes to census reports, and covers all the typical kinds of distortions from deliberate oversimplifications to the misleading use of color. "Professor Monmonier himself knows how to gain our attention; it is not in fact the lies in maps but their truth, if always approximate and incomplete, that he wants us to admire and use, even to draw for ourselves on the facile screen. His is an artful and funny book, which like any good map, packs plenty in little space."—Scientific American "A useful guide to a subject most people probably take too much for granted. It shows how map makers translate abstract data into eye-catching cartograms, as they are called. It combats cartographic illiteracy. It fights cartophobia. It may even teach you to find your way. For that alone, it seems worthwhile."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times ". . . witty examination of how and why maps lie. [The book] conveys an important message about how statistics of any kind can be manipulated. But it also communicates much of the challenge, aesthetic appeal, and sheer fun of maps. Even those who hated geography in grammar school might well find a new enthusiasm for the subject after reading Monmonier's lively and surprising book."—Wilson Library Bulletin "A reading of this book will leave you much better defended against cheap atlases, shoddy journalism, unscrupulous advertisers, predatory special-interest groups, and others who may use or abuse maps at your expense."—John Van Pelt, Christian Science Monitor "Monmonier meets his goal admirably. . . . [His] book should be put on every map user's 'must read' list. It is informative and readable . . . a big step forward in helping us to understand how maps can mislead their readers."—Jeffrey S. Murray, Canadian Geographic