FYI: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­move Press has made avail­ready on-line — without charge –5 vol­umes of The His­to­ry of Automotive­tog­ra­phy. Or what Edward Roth­stein, of The New York Occasions, known as “probably the most ambi­tious review of map mak­ing ever below­tak­en.” He con­tin­ues:

Peo­ple come to grasp the sector the way in which they arrive to map it—via their in step with­cep­tions of ways its ele­ments are con­nect­ed and of ways they must transfer amongst them. That is pre­cise­ly what the sequence is try­ing via sit down­u­at­ing the map on the center of cul­tur­al existence and divulge­ing its rela­tion­send to soci­ety, sci­ence, and reli­gion…. It’s check out­ing to outline a brand new set of rela­tion­ships between maps and the phys­i­cal international that contain greater than geo­met­ric cor­re­spon­dence. It’s in essence a brand new map of human makes an attempt to chart the sector.

In the event you head over to this web page, you’ll see hyperlinks (within the left mar­gin) to 5 vol­umes avail­ready in a loose PDF for­mat. The picture above, seem­ing in Vol. 2, dates again to 1534. Cre­at­ed via Oronce High quality, the first chair of math­e­mat­ics within the Col­lège Roy­al (aka the Col­lège de France), the map fea­tures the sector drawn within the form of a center. A pret­ty beau­ti­ful design. Underneath you’ll in finding hyperlinks to the indi­vid­ual vol­umes avail­ready on-line.

Vol­ume 1

The His­to­ry of Automotive­tog­ra­phy: Automotive­tog­ra­phy in Pre­his­toric, Historical, and Medieval Europe and the Mediter­ranean

Vol­ume 2: Guide 1

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Tra­di­tion­al Islam­ic and South Asian Soci­eties

Vol­ume 2: Guide 2

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Tra­di­tion­al East and South­east Asian Soci­eties

Vol­ume 2: Section 3

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Tra­di­tion­al African, Amer­i­can, Arc­tic, Aus­tralian, and Pacif­ic Soci­eties

Vol­ume 3: 

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Euro­pean Renais­sance: Section 1

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Euro­pean Renais­sance, Section 2 

Vol­ume 4:

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Euro­pean Enlight­en­ment

Vol­ume 5:

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the 9­teenth Cen­tu­ry, Forth­com­ing

Vol­ume 6:

Automotive­tog­ra­phy within the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry

In the event you purchase any of the print­ed ver­sions on Ama­zon, every edi­tion will price you $400-$500. As beau­ti­ful because the e-book prob­a­bly is, you’ll like­ly appre­ci­ate this loose dig­i­tal be offering­ing.

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