John Noble Wilford

The Mapmakers

Revised Edition

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In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize--winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. With this revised edition, Wilford brings the story up to the present day, as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers-including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West-whose exploits shap… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-375-70850-3
EAN: 9780375708503
Produktnummer: 9326504
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 528 S.

Über den Autor

John Noble Wilford is a science correspondent for The New York Times. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes-one in 1984 for his reporting on space science, and the other in 1987 as a member of the Times team reporting on the aftermath of the Challenger accident. He was the McGraw Lecturer at Princeton University in 1985, and Professor of Science Journalism at the University of Tennessee in 1989-90. In 1998, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in New York.