Apollo's Eye A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination |
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| Author:
| Cosgrove, Denis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6491-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2001 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $137.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
''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 ......