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A History of the World in 12 Maps

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by Jerry Brotton


  earth

  3 D terrain modelling. 426

  centre 30

  circumference 30, 35–6, 39–40, 44–5, 62, 73, 195, 302

  diameter 301–2

  Digital Earth (Gore) 419–21

  flat 11

  foundation 2, 26 see also cosmogony, Greek; cosmology

  Gaia hypothesis 378

  in a geocentric universe 26, 30, 31, 41–2, 98, 154, 160–61, 266–7, 288–9

  global village 378

  Google Earth see Google Earth

  in heliocentric theory 42, 258, 262, 267, 279, 280, 289–90, 293

  inhabited world (Greek) see

  oblate 308–11, 413

  periodos /circuit of the earth see circuit of the earth

  prolate 308, 309

  seen from space 377–8, 385, 405–7, 419 see also Google Earth

  shape controversy 308–11, 312–14

  spherical 11–12, 20, 26, 27, 28, 30–31, 42, 73

  square 125, 126

  surface area 3

  terrestrial globes see globes, terrestrial

  true earth (Socrates) 29

  world population 404, 434

  Earthviewer 421–2, 424, 425

  East India Company 344

  Easy Guide to the Constellations (Gall) 394–5

  Eckert IV projection 389

  Eden/Paradise 57, 90, 101, 103, 104, 107

  Edney, Matthew 344

  Edward I 82–3

  Eisenstein, Elizabeth 158

  Elcano, Juan Sebastião see Cano, Juan Sebastião del

  electronic technology 412–19

  see also information access, online mapping

  Eliade, Mircea 8–9

  Elvas 199, 201, 202

  De emendatione temporum (Scaliger) 258

  empty space theory, Chinese 125

  England

  Anglo-American statecraft 368

  censuses 343

  Greenwich 332, 383, 440

  London see London

  Mackinder and geopolitics in see Mackinder, Halford

  Ordnance Survey see Ordnance Survey

  Entertainment (The Book of Roger) 55–9, 67, 68, 71–8, 79, 99

  equal-area projection

  Bonne 341, 342

  Gall 393–5, 394, 396

  Goode 389, 390, 393

  Hammer 390

  Lambert 395–6

  Peters 378–404

  pseudo-cylindrical 341, 342

  Erasmus, Desiderius 223, 239

  Eratosthenes 18, 35–7, 38, 39

  Against Eratosthenes (Hipparchus) 39

  Ercole I d’Este, duke of Ferrara 190, 191, 198

  Eros 24

  Espinossa, Gonzalo Gómez de 197, 198

  Etymologies (Isidore of Seville) 100–101, 170, 171

  Munich ‘Isidore’ mappamundi 103–5

  Euclid 18, 37

  Euclidean geometry 37–8, 47–8, 49, 50, 157

  Eudoxus of Cnidus 30

  Euphrates, river 2, 96

  Eurasia 361, 369, 372

  Eurasian ‘heartland’ 368

  Europa 101

  Europe

  Eurocentrism 220, 379, 384, 393

  in the Hereford mappamundi 86

  and Herodotus 27–8

  Internet penetration 434

  in the Kangnido map 119

  on the Mercator projection 247, 253, 391

  population at start of sixteenth century 157

  and the printing revolution 157–9, 162–3, 184

  Renaissance see Renaissance, European

  Eusebius 93

  Evangelicae historiae (Mercator) 256

  Eve 90

  evolutionary theory 347

  see also Darwinism

  Fabre d’Églantine, Philippe François Nazaire 294, 295, 296

  Fain, Baron 331

  Faleiro, Ruy 195

  Fauchet, Abbé Claude 327

  feng shui 137–9, 140

  Ferdinand V of Castile and León 186

  Fernandez, Simão 202

  Ferrara 190, 191

  Ferraris, Joseph Jean François, Comte de 298

  Fettweis, Christopher 372

  The Figure of the Earth (Maupertuis) 310

  Finé, Oronce 236–7, 243

  world map 235

  Fischer, Joseph 148, 180, 181

  Flanders 222

  Mercator’s map of 237–8

  Florence 160, 161

  Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de 299, 300, 307

  Forceville, Mlle de 329

  Foucault, Michel 184–5, 399

  France

  Académie des Sciences 298–300, 301–9, 322, 329

  anti-French sentiment 86

  Carte de France corrigée 306–7, 307

  censuses 343

  Dépôt de la Guerre 294–5, 329–30, 331

  general map of see Cassini map of France, Carte de Cassini

  lithographic maps 343

  National Assembly 330

  national consciousness 294–336, 374

  National Convention of Republican France 294–5, 296, 297

  ‘New Map of France’ (Cassini III) 314, 316–17

  proclamation of a French Republic 327

  and the representation of political boundaries on maps 298

  Société de Géographie 338, 340

  Société de la Carte de France 322, 328

  Third Estate 327

  Francis I of France 214

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 79

  The Freeman 387

  Freiburg, University of 157

  Frisius, Gemma 225, 226, 233, 239

  Froschauer, Christopher 230

  Fugger, House of 195

  Fuller Dymaxion projection 389

  Fust, Johann 157

  Gaia 24

  Galileo Galilei 267, 279

  Gall, James 393, 394, 395, 396

  map projection 393–5, 394, 396

  Galton, Sir Francis 350

  Gama, Vasco da 172, 188, 189

  Gangelt 222

  Ganges, river 96, 248

  Gangines Ethiopians 88

  Garcia, Nuño 201, 205

  Gauss, Carl Friedrich 12, 342

  General Perspective Projection 435

  ‘The General Survey Map of China and Non-Chinese Territories from the Past to the Present’ 136

  geocentric theories 26, 30, 31, 41–2, 98, 154, 160–61, 266–7, 288–9

  geodesy 295, 296, 307–8, 319, 332, 342

  GeoEye 426

  The Geographer (Vermeer) 272

  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 378, 413–14

  Geographical Association 348

  geographical distribution, evolutionary 347

  ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ (Mackinder) 360–64, 371

  ‘The Natural Seats of Power’ world map 362–3, 363, 364–5, 372

  Geographical Section of the General Staff (GSGS) 441

  Geographical Society of London 337–8

  geography

  1820s–30s as turning point in history of 338–9

  as an academic discipline 12, 350–51, 370

  ‘anthropogeography’ 353, 370 see also human geography

  and astronomy 19, 40–41, 301–7, 309–11

  Bible’s 230

  biogeography 353

  Blaeu on 290

  Chinese 126–7, 131, 134–5 see also Chinese mapmaking

  development in early sixteenth century 157–67

  Dutch culture and the role of 266

  geographical discovery see d
iscovery, geographical

  geographical information access (online mapping) 406–8, 409–14, 428 see also Google Earth

  and global disputes 186–217

  Greek 21–41 see also Ptolemy’s Geography

  human 40–41, 74–5, 97–8, 222, 348, 353, 429, 440 see also ‘anthropogeography’

  and Lutheranism 227–30

  mythical 26–7, 134–5

  political see political geography

  relation to maps 5, 10

  Renaissance tradition of 259

  Roman 38

  and science 326

  Tobler’s First Law 428–9

  Geography (Ptolemy) see Ptolemy’s Geography

  Geography (Strabo) 40–41

  geomancy 137–9, 140

  geometry 101–2

  Euclidean 37–8, 47–8, 49, 50, 157

  geomorphology 352, 353

  geopolitics

  and global warfare 370

  ideological language of 370–71

  Mackinder and 346–72, 374

  Nazi theory of 369

  political geography in general see political geography

  geospatial applications 15, 296, 405–36, 444

  geospatial technologists 407, 413–14, 416–19, 426, 444

  German Cartographical Society 381

  Germany

  colonial expansion 358, 360

  and Czechoslovakia 374–5, 375

  German philosophical tradition 352

  imperialism 223, 354

  Nazism see Nazism

  relationship with US 147, 148–50

  Treaty of Versailles 442

  World War II 367–8, 375–6

  Gerritsz, Hessel 274, 277

  Die Geschichte der Kartographie 12

  Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Berlin Geographical Society) 338

  Ghent 219, 237–8

  Ghim, Walter 220, 224, 237, 241

  Gilbert of Gloucester, Earl 110

  GIS (Geographic Information Systems) 378, 413–14

  Gleick, James 410

  global circumnavigation, first 192–8

  ‘Global Map’ 444, 445

  Global Positioning Systems (GPS) 420

  globe gores 167, 168, 180, 232, 252

  globes, celestial 30, 42, 194, 240, 267

  celestial globe gores 180

  globes, terrestrial

  Behaim 194–5

  Joan Blaeu 282

  Mercator 226–7, 238, 240, 254

  as navigational aids 194–5

  projection onto 224–5

  Gloucester, Gilbert of, Earl 110

  gnomons 36

  Gnosticism 58

  Goepper, Roger 137–8

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 352

  Gog 59, 87–8, 103

  Golden Fleece 87

  Gomarists 274

  Gomarus, Franciscus 274

  Gómez, Esteban 203, 207, 208

  Goode, J. Paul, map projection 389, 390, 393

  Google 405–6, 422–4, 425, 429–30, 432–3, 436, 438

  acquisition of Keyhole 422, 424

  ‘Googlenomics’ 430–31

  Street View 408

  Google Earth 405–9, 422–36, 444, 445

  APIs 406

  background to development of 410–22

  Community 433

  and a cultural worldview 409, 432

  and the digital divide 433–4

  General Perspective Projection 435

  Google Maps 408, 425–6, 429, 431, 432

  Map maker 426–7

  Gore, Al 419–21

  Gothic lettering 169, 225–6

  GPS (Global Positioning Systems) 420

  Graf, Klaus 149–50

  Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de 238

  Granvelle, Nicholas Perrenot de 238

  graticules 11, 20, 46, 63, 80, 130, 132, 175, 177, 356, 374–5, 382, 392, 402

  Gravesend, Richard 109

  Gray, Colin 368

  Great Bear 101

  Great Trigonometrical Survey of India 344

  Greek astronomy 21, 28, 30, 35–6, 39–40, 41–3, 45, 47–8

  Greek cosmogony 24–6, 30–31

  Greek cosmology 26, 28–32, 42

  Greek geography 21–41

  see also Ptolemy’s Geography

  Greek maps 11, 22–4, 32, 33

  Anaximander 26–7

  Hecataeus 27

  Hellenistic 33–41, 34

  Herodotus and 27–8

  in Ptolemy’s Geography 20, 51–2

  Greenland 253, 391, 405

  Greenman, Simon 420, 436

  Greenwich 332, 383, 440

  griffin 87

  Grotius, Hugo 279

  GSGS (Geographical Section of the General Staff) 441

  Guardian 372, 378–9

  Guelders, duchy of 239

  Guiraudet, Toussaint 328

  Guiscard, Roger I, count of Sicily 54, 68

  Gulf War, first 372

  Gulf War, second 421–2

  Gurjal, Staish 373

  Gutenberg, Johann 157

  Gymnasium Vosagense 159–60, 163–71, 175, 176–8, 182

  see also Cosmographia introductio; Waldseemüller map, Universalis cosmographia

  Gypsies 375–6

  Habban 2

  Habsburgs 165, 192, 218–19, 226–7, 237, 239

  see also Charles V, Emperor

  65

  Hakluyt, Richard 259

  Halley, Edmund 343

  Ham 96

  Hamburg 146

  Hammer, Ernst, equal-area projection 390

  Han dynasty 129

  Han Feizi 128

  Hangzhou 134

  Hanke, John 422

  Hanover 342

  Hanyang 116, 118, 138

  Harley, J. B. 399–401

  and Woodward, D. 5, 12, 438

  Harris, Elizabeth 182–3

  Hartshorne, Richard 369

  Harvey, David 259

  Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph, polyconic projection 342

  Hausburg, Campbell 356

  Hausburg Valley 356

  Haushofer, Karl 369

  Hauteville dynasty 54, 68–9

  heart 235–6

  cordiform projection 233, 234, 235–7, 247

  Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 344

  heartland theory (Mackinder) 366–8, 370–71

  On the Heavens (Aristotle) 30–31

  Hebrews, Epistle to 107

  Hecataeus 27

  heliocentric theory 42, 258, 262, 267, 279, 280, 289–90, 293

  Hellenistic mapmaking 33–41, 34

  Hem, Laurens van der 292

  Hennessy, John 407

  Henry VII 201

  Henry VIII 210, 215

  Hephaestus, god of fire 24

  Hereford Cathedral 84–5

  Hereford diocese 83

  Hereford mappamundi 84–113, 438

  and the Bible 87, 89–90

  compared with Waldseemüller map 151–2, 171

  and Mackinder 357, 366–7

  Herodotus of Halicarnassus 27–8,

  32’s-Hertogenbosch, groote school 223

  Hesiod 24, 25

  Hess, Rudolf 369

  Hessler, John 177–8

  Heyden, Gaspar van der 225, 226

  Hilary, St 92

  Himantopods 88

  Hipparchus of Nicaea 39

  Hippolytus 25

  Hispaniola 174

  History against the Pagans (Orosius) 71, 99–100

  History of Cartography (Har
ley and Woodward) 5, 12, 438

  Hitler, Adolf 367, 369

  Hoe, Yi 122

  Hoff, Ted 413

  Hohenstaufen dynasty 68–9

  Holbein, Hans: The Ambassadors 215–16, 215

  Holdich, Sir Thomas 345, 348

  Holtzbrinck Group 148–9

  Holy Land maps 93, 94–5, 96, 227–32, 228–9

  Holy Roman Empire 223

  Homem, Lopo 201

  Homer 22–4, 25

  Hondius, Henricus 275, 277, 280

  Hondius, Jodocus the Elder 259, 264, 272, 275

  Mercator-Hondius Atlas 275, 277

  Hondius, Jodocus the Younger 275–6

  Hong Kong 362

  Honorius II, Pope 69

  Hoogstraten, Samuel van 15

  Horace: Epistles 256–7

  Hounslow Heath 332

  House of Islam 56, 63–4

  House of Mina and India 200

  House of Trade, Seville 200, 201, 202, 263

  House of War 56

  House of Wisdom 60, 62

  HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) 415

  Hua yi tu (‘Map of the Chinese and Foreign Lands’) 132–3, 133, 135

  Hugh of Saint-Victor 103–5

  human geography 40–41, 74–5, 97–8, 222, 348, 429, 440

  ‘anthropogeography’ 353, 370

  humanism 223–4

  Humboldt, Alexander von 348, 352

  Hungarian National Office of Lands and Mapping 443

  huntian theory 124–6

  Hunyi jiangli tu (Qingjun) 121, 122, 122

  Huygens, Christiaan 298

  Huygens, Constantijn 260

  Hven 266

  Hylacomylus, Martin see Waldseemüller, Martin

  Hyperion 24–5

  hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) 415

  Iapetus 24–5

  IATO atlases 292

  Ibn ‘Abd Allah, Muhammad 68

  Ibn , 65, 75

  Ibn Jubayr 70

  Ibn 79

  Ibn 63, 64, 75, 76

  Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 66

  iconography of maps 128

  idealism 352

  , 55, 56, 66–78, 81, 437, 438

  Entertainment 55–9, 67, 68, 71–8, 79, 99

  Ilacomilus, Martin see Waldseemüller, Martin

  Iliad 22–4

  Imagined Communities (Anderson) 335

  Imago Mundi 12

  imperialism 37–8, 47–8, 49, 50, 157, 347, 374

  British 344–7, 356–9, 360, 362

  cyber 408

  European imperial politics 188, 196–217, 220, 236

  geography and the science of 371

  German 223, 354

  imperial mapping 344–6, 356, 357–9, 358–9, 365

  Roman 40, 41

  Russian 362

  IMW (International Map of the World) 439–44, 443, 445

  In-Q-Tel 422

  India

  in Cantino planisphere 191

  cosmology 61

  in Eratosthenes’ map 37

  and Google Earth 408

 

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