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Elementos De Cartografía Arthur H. Robinson Este libro supone, sin duda, una aportación decisiva tanto por su papel de sólida iniciación para el futuro cartógrafo como por su función informativa y auxiliar para todo el amplio abanico de especialistas que se relacionan con los mapas. La obra esta articulada en forma de manual, perfectamente estructurada, y su contenido logra un exquisito equilibrio entre los distintos temas y entre lo teorico y lo practico. En la edicion castellana se ha cuidado especialmente el vocabulario tecnico.

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volumes more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the eras mapping, covering topics both detailedsuch as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collectingand broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.