Herbert George Fordham

Some Notable Surveyors and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and their Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, which was first published in 1929, Fordham presents a study regarding the history of cartography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 143g
• ISBN-13: 9781107452855
• ISBN-10: 1107452856
• Artikelnr.: 41611340

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Elizabethan surveyors, their work, and its influence on the British cartography of the seventeenth century
2. The French school of cartography of the seventeenth century
3. Cartography as an exact science. Its development in the eighteenth century in France
4. British cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century, its connection with the triangulation of France, and the ordnance survey
Conclusion
List of works of reference
Index.