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Malcolm Swanston et al.: History of Maps

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From the first known world map to the original historical text and aerial photographs of the subject, 65 complete copies have been restored. Ancient people who read the seasons and developed the concept of time through the movement of the sun, moon and celestial bodies created maps to understand the world and environment around them. The map then played a significant role in the development of human civilization, including exploration and migration to discover new lands, trade expansion, war and territorial division. Especially technology has led to the creation of maps of much more variety and precision than before. The book opens a vivid story of a series of mapmakers and cartographers who have had endless challenges and studies until the map we know today is drawn.

Korean title: 지도의 역사

Korean author: 맬컴 스완스턴 외

Korean publisher: 소소의책

ISBN-13: 9791188941681

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OH******
April 14, 2022

The history of maps as explained by surveyation and expression is also closely related to the scientific mathematician. So it's a book that has multiple multiple visuals and is interesting to read.

EV********
November 12, 2021

I liked the history of maps more than anyone else, and from the very beginning, I was able to find common ground with writers. I don't know if the subject of guidance has become more familiar with just the common ground. The book on map was not unintelligible. Map gave me another theme, travel, at the same time, a drawing or history. As for the map, I liked to travel through the country that I was looking at through the map. As you can imagine, seeing a flying plane in the sky reminded you of a

DJ*****
November 6, 2021

Even now, the various forms of maps that people easily use, and the important navigation and the critical digital maps in various navigation and activities, we take information and data from everyday life, as simple as possible, and use them in a form of convenience. But it's not just the result of a process of discovery, science, technology, but from a historical perspective, we also know that mapping, discovery and use of maps have been used in various forms in the history of humanity, and

PR******
November 6, 2021

As a child, I looked at the globe and thought, well, who made the world map? The author invites the book The History of Map to take a journey to mapmaking, including the technology to map the world from the first maps ever described. The world's first map was discovered in the west of Baghdad in '86, with a clay tablet inscribed with wedge letters made in the sixth century B.C. The Babylonians, who defined the length of a year at about 360 degrees, calculated that the circle was divided into

DO****
November 6, 2021

And I think we've all had this idea about how the map was made. I remember feeling particularly great when I was in school, when I learned about the Great Teacher's Map. Although I was actually drawing the area on my own, and I was really curious about how I could do that in detail. People seem to have properties that look around them. That's why we have been pioneering farther out. The habit of writing things seems to have been around for a long time. And as I read the story of animals marking

BO********
November 5, 2021

Moderns are using more maps than they used to be. Not only can you find what you want with your car's navigation, or with your computer or your smartphone, but you can also figure out the time and cost of your various ways of moving. Before there was this online-based map service, we used maps on paper or on paper. Before the navigation was available, car insurance gave us a national map, and when we moved to other parts of the country, we had memories of looking at maps and pre-existing them.

GO******
November 5, 2021

I couldn't understand the map of Seoul, although I understood one map of the palace while searching for its palace. Of course, the outline of a piece of Seoul 25 special poems was not easily seen when I walked through the city. In our daily lives, maps are very important. I followed the history of the map. The career of a leader who worked for 50 years as a mapmaker and who has created 100 different departments and the most topics in history is spectacular. Maps are needed all over our lives. I

KB***
November 4, 2021

A map is a map of the world, but it's a map. I wanted to read with the history of Yuri, who likes history. I could read the story in a more curious way with a single theme called Map, which is also global. It was even more fun to be in the world of maps. How did we get the map that we know? Now, science has developed, and we can map more detailedly, but what did we do in those early days? I was really curious. It's great to have a vivid, curious audience of mapmakers who have done a series of

KG*****
November 3, 2021

The meaning of the map to our species, and what it is, is different. I think it's been used for a variety of purposes, such as resource plundering, colonies, wars, trade, territorial division. If you take the lead, you will only be reminded of the Great Teacher. I like history, too. But the subject of the history of the map and the title were enough to attract readers. It was a very personal curiosity to be able to understand the world's history as a subject. Now, while the map is more accurate

IS***
November 2, 2021

I was happy to be able to get my map history book. I'm full of high-end sensations on a double cover. I think history books are very good for you personally. It's my taste; it's interesting what happens to human history, where we start with the first map of AI. Now, we're not going to have to do a satellite map, so we've got to take pictures of this place, and we'll see that the history of the map has been very devoid of any kind of history. But before we get to science, we think it's going to

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