Author: Michael Schwartz
Publisher: Self Publisher
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780615621043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elaine W. Fowler
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780918016157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Folger guides provide lively, authoritative surveys of important aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English cultural history. Attractively illustrated with material from contemporary documents, the Guides are designed for the general reader and are particularly valuable as enrichment resources for courses in Renaissance history and literature.
Author: A. T. Fomenko
Publisher: Mithec
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 2913621074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author contends that all generaly accepted historical chronology prior to the 16th century is inaccurate, often off by many hundreds or even thousands of years. Volume 1 of a proposed seven volumes.
Author: Lloyd Arnold Brown
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0486238733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources. Easily readable." — Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library. The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A.D. — Strabo and Ptolemy — through the end of the 19th century, with some discussion of 20th-century developments. 86 illustrations. Extensive notes and bibliography. "Mr. Brown felicitously marries scholarship to narrative and dramatic skill." — Henry Steele Commager.
Author: Charles H. Hapgood
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780932813428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hapgood utilizes ancient maps as concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. Hapgood concluded that these ancient mapmakers were in some ways much more advanced in mapmaking than any people prior to the 18th century. Hapgood believes that they mapped all the continents. This would mean that the Americas were mapped thousands of years before Columbus. Antarctica would have been mapped when its coasts were free of ice. Hapgood supposes that there is evidence that these people must have lived when the Ice Age had not yet ended in the Northern Hemisphere and when Alaska was still connected with Siberia by the Pleistocene, Ice Age 'land bridge'.
Author: Howard L. Resnikoff
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-03-18
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0486789225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Enlarged and corrected edition published: New York: Dover Publications, 1984.
Author: Ptolemy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002-01-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780691092591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any time, in whole or in part, at any scale. Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the Geography, and the later history of the work.