[PDF.42yq] Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

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 | #1943347 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2003-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.87 x6.13l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."―from the Preface

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space―to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo―images of the earth as a globe had captured pop...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination   |  Carmen P. Cosgrove. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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