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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does

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by Garfield, Simon


  While every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders of illustrations, the author and publishers would be grateful for information about any illustrations where they have been unable to trace them, and would be glad to make amendments in further editions.

  Index

  Figures in italics indicate captions to illustrations.

  AA 376

  accelerometers 373, 379

  Acre, Israel 61, 62

  Adam 66, 67

  Adelaide 234, 235, 239

  Admiralty 348

  Charts 220, 222, 266

  Aegean Sea 49

  aethroscopes 189

  Africa

  Andrea Bianco map 71

  in the Beatus Map 66

  blank spaces in 210–14, 213, 216, 219

  and de la Cosa’s map 109–10

  Ebstorf map 69

  and Gastaldi 84, 143

  gold reserves 205

  on Mappa Mundi 48, 49

  and Hondius 141n

  imperialism in 216

  Mercator’s map 132

  Ogilby’s work 172

  as part of Gondwana 260

  and the Silver Map 138

  in The Times Atlas 152

  Vinland Map 92

  Waldseemüller map 113

  world in three sections 25, 27

  Africanus, Leo 207

  Agrippa, Emperor 49

  Agueras y Arcas, Blaise 435

  Aitchison, James 182

  Aitsinger, Michael 160

  Al-Idrisi, Muhammad 62, 63–5

  The Book of Roger 64

  Alakabeth: World of Doom 408

  Álarcón, Hernando de 121

  Aldrin, Buzz 425

  Alerte (ship) 252

  Alexander Island 265

  Alexander the Great 23, 67, 143

  Alexandria, Egypt 22, 24, 66, 92

  Algeria 218

  Allan, Alasdair 432

  Allen, Woody 320

  Alphadesigner (Yanko Tsvetkov) 439

  Alphonso V of Portugal 76

  Amazon (retailer) 435

  America

  the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148

  Cortés makes first plan of an American city 120

  and Hondius 141n

  name appears on a map for first time 112, 113–14, 117, 119

  name begins to appear on other maps 120

  Ogilby’s English Atlas 172

  in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 143

  Waldseemüller choice of name 119 see also United States

  American Academy of Arts and Sciences 388

  American Eagle

  (Churchman) 162–63, 162

  American Psychological Association 370

  Ampthill Park 326

  Amsterdam 124, 146

  Amundsen, Roald 256, 272, 314n, 425

  Amundsen microprobe 393n

  Amusement Land test 368, 368

  Anaximander of Miletus 26, 26

  Andrea Bianco 70–71, 70

  Angelus, Jacobus 103

  Antarctic Circle 263

  Antarctic Peninsula 263–64

  Antarctic Treaty (1959) 271

  Antarctica

  Amundsen’s route 256, 256

  Discovery expedition in 256, 258–9

  Finé’s map 262

  in data from Marinus of Tyre 37

  land-grab map 271

  mapped by satellites 273, 430

  Mercator’s map 126

  as part of Gondwana 260

  Terra Nova expedition 259

  Ui-te-Rangiora fable 260

  and United States 271, 272, 378n

  Antoniadi, Eugenios 391–2

  Antony, Mary 32

  AOL 428

  Apian, Peter 120

  Apollonius 23

  Apple 434–5

  Apple Mac 416

  Apple Maps 434–35

  Arabia

  in Eratosthenes’s map 28

  and Gastaldi 143

  Arader, W. Graham, III 352–8, 355, 364–5

  Archimedes 23, 29

  Arctic 234, 251, 260

  Argand oil lamp 189

  Argentina 271, 272

  Aristotle 23, 28

  Arizona 121

  Armada 136

  armillary spheres see astrolabes

  Armitage, Simon 372

  Armsheim, Johannes

  de 105

  Armstrong, Neil 429

  Arneson, Dave 408

  Arrian 23

  Ashford, Mary 200–203, 202

  Ashford, William 201

  Asia

  Andrea Bianco map 71

  and Columbus 107

  Gastaldi’s mural 84

  Hereford Mappa Mundi 49

  Strabo on 33

  Toscanelli’s suggestion 105–6

  Vinland Map 92

  Waldseemüller map 113

  world in three sections 25, 27

  Association of American Geographers 367

  astrolabes 25

  Atkinson, James 70

  Atlantic Ocean

  Andrea Bianco map 71

  and Drake’s Passage 138–9

  in Eratosthenes’s map 28

  Atlas 14, 140, 142

  Atlas Mountains 25

  atlases 14, 18

  a craze in Venice 143

  Mercator introduces the word 140

  Blaeu Atlas Maior 149

  popular atlas 144

  world’s largest 158, 159

  Augustus, Emperor 50

  Aurea (ship) 241, 251

  Austen, Jane 299

  Australia

  and Antarctica 271

  Ayers Rock mapped 239

  Burke and Wills’s journey 235–9, 236, 238

  Cook sails to (1770) 263

  explorers in 234–5

  gold rush (1850s) 234

  as part of Gondwana 260

  telegraph line 239

  and Terra Australis 261

  Australopithecus 414

  Automative Navigation

  Data (AND) 380–81

  Automobile Club of America 402

  Ayers Rock (Uluru), Australia 239

  Azimuthal projection 13, 127, 134, 350

  Azores 71

  Babylonian world map clay tablet 38, 38n

  Bacon, CW 437

  Baedeker 302–4, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310

  Bahamas 106, 107, 111

  Balbao, Vasco Nuñez de 113

  Ball, Lucille 320

  Banks, Joseph 205

  Barber, Peter 53

  barometers 182, 189

  Barrie, Sir J. M. 311–12

  Peter Pan 311

  Barrow, Ian J. 193n

  Bartholomew (cartographic firm) 154, 209, 404

  Bassett, Thomas 208

  Bauhaus school 154

  Bayer, Hubert 154, 155–6

  World Geo-Graphic Atlas 154–56, 155

  Baynes-Cope, Dr Arthur David 52, 333

  Bazalgette, Joseph 232

  BBC 347, 348, 385, 436

  BBC Worldwide 376n

  Beardmore Glacier 270

  Beatrice, Princess 223

  Beatus Map 65–7, 66

  Beatus of Liebana 65

  Beer, Wilhelm 390–91

  Behaim, Martin 113, 146

  Erdapfel globe 336–38, 337

  Beinecke Library, Yale

  University 99, 102, 359, 362

  Belgian Congo 216, 217, 218

  Belgium 160

  Bell Rock 250–51, 251

  Bellerby, Peter 327–33, 331, 340–46, 342

  Bellingshausen, Fabian

  Gottlieb von 264–5

  Bellini, Giovanni 85

  Belwood, Peter 363

  Ben Nevis 197

  Berlin Conference (1884–5) 218

  Bethesda Game Studios 397

  Bethlehem 62

  Bianco, Andrea 70, 79, 83

  Biblioteca Marciana, Venice 75

  Bills of Mortality 230

  Bing Maps 380n, 435, 436

  Binge
r, Louis-Gustave 204–5, 209

  Bishop’s Head, St Paul’s Churchyard, London 171

  Bismarck, Prince Otto von 218

  Bissell-Thomas, James 343–44

  Bitter River 38n

  Bjarni Herjolfsson 91n

  Blackberrys 19

  Blaeu, Cornelis 147

  Blaeu, Joan 147, 148, 149–51, 154, 158, 353

  Blaeu, Willem 147

  Africae Nova Descriptio 211, 212

  Blaeu Atlas Maior 146–51, 149, 150, 158, 160

  Blaeu dynasty 146–7, 151, 261, 397

  Blair, Tony 58

  Blake, Erin C. 74

  Bland, Gilbert 363–64

  Blaxland, Gregory 234–35

  Blessed Isles 130

  Blue Guides 304, 306

  Blue Mountains, Australia 234

  Blue Nile 205

  board games 401–3, 403

  Board of Ordnance 183, 186

  Bodleian Library, Oxford 22

  Boetti, Alighiero 440

  Bogart, Humphrey 320

  Boissière, Gilles de la 400

  Bologna, Italy 103, 141

  Bookheimer, Susan 423

  Booth, Charles 274–8, 285

  Booth, Mary 275

  Borges, Jorge Luis 426

  Bosch, Hieronymus 46

  Boston, Massachusetts 122, 166

  Bowers, Henry 270

  Bowlegs, Captain Billy 248

  Bowles, Carrington 183

  Bradbury, Ray 389

  Brahe, Tycho 147, 389

  brain injury 414

  brain mapping 410–23

  brain expansion and sophistication 414–16

  Brodmann maps 417–18, 419, 422

  Chris Clark’s child health work 417, 420

  Einstein’s brain 410, 413

  Human Connectome Project 422–23

  Maguire’s research on cab drivers 410–14, 412, 420

  MRI scanning 420–21

  phrenology 418–20, 419

  repairing memory loss 414

  tractography 421

  Bransfield, Sir Edward 264

  Brazil 116, 138

  Brettania 28

  Brewster, Sir David 267

  Briggs, Henry 122, 123, 124

  Brin, Sergey 428, 429

  Britain

  Andrea Bianco map 71

  and Antarctica 271

  ‘Baedeker raids’ 303

  in the Beatus Map 66

  colonial surveys 190–93, 191

  and de la Cosa’s map 109

  on Hereford Mappa Mundi 48

  imperialism in Africa 216

  Matthew Paris’s strip map 62

  Mercator’s Atlas on 141

  Strabo’s comments 33

  British Association For the Advancement of Science (BAFTAS) 266, 267

  British Empire 164, 339

  British Library, London 22, 45, 46, 53, 62, 66, 159, 356, 360, 363, 417

  British Museum, London 38n, 52, 95, 98, 100, 101, 135, 269, 333, 440–1

  Broad Street water pump, London 226, 227, 228, 229

  Broca’s Area 417–18, 420

  Brodmann, Korbinian 417–20, 422

  Brontë, Charlotte 231–2

  Brussels geographical conference (1876) 216

  Buddhism 65

  Bukhara, Uzbekistan 78

  Bunyan, John 174

  Burdwood Island 262–3

  Burke, Robert O’Hara 235–39, 236, 238

  Burke and Wills (film) 239

  Burton, Charles 391

  Burton, Richard 210

  Burton Bay, Mars 391

  Bush, George W. 58

  Butler, Paul 15–16

  Byrd, Admiral 268

  Byron, Lord 299, 300

  Byzantines 39, 66

  Cabinet War Rooms, London 328, 347, 350

  Cabot, John (Giovanni Caboto) 83, 105, 110

  Cabot, Sebastian 83

  ‘cadastral’ maps 183

  Caernarfon Castle 48

  Caesar, Julius 32, 33

  Cagnoli, Antonio: Traité de Trigonométrie 181

  Caillié, René 214

  California 138, 163

  Drake in 137

  as an ‘island’ 121–4, 123

  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Caltech) 86

  California Map Society 122

  ‘calottes’ 344

  Calvin, William 415

  Cambridge University 363

  Camden, William 150, 179

  Cameron, David 328

  Cameroon 218

  Canary Islands 130

  Cannibal Islands, The 111

  Cansay (Quinsay; now Hangchow), China 79

  Cantilupe Pilgrimage Complex 54

  Cape Adare 268

  Cape Anne 268

  Cape Canaveral 375

  Cape Christie 268

  Cape Cod, Mass. 122

  Cape Comorin 192

  Cape Cotter 268

  Cape Crozier 259, 269

  Cape Downshire 268

  Cape Evans 269

  Cape of Good Hope 106, 139, 213, 260, 261n

  Cape Hallett 268

  Cape Hooker 268

  Cape McCormick 268

  Cape Moore 268

  Cape North 268

  Cape Town 256

  Cape Verde islands 83, 130, 138, 338

  Cape Wood 268

  Caquard, Sébastien 316–17, 318

  Carpaccio, Vittore 85

  Carpini, John de Plano 91, 92, 95, 96, 97

  Carroll, Lewis 125, 426

  Carta Marina 119

  Cartographic Journal 316–17, 367

  cartography

  as both art and science 104

  digital 197, 317, 319, 432, 433–4, 443

  emergence of French ‘scientific’ school 151

  Eratosthenes’s work 25

  first copyright 174

  first great German contribution to 105

  golden age of 144

  period of flamboyancy and ornamentation 151

  romantic 268’ new commercial artform 146

  cartouches 13, 103, 144, 148, 172, 179, 211

  Cary, John 183

  ‘A New Map of Africa, from the Latest Authorities’ 207

  Casablanca (film) 314–15, 315

  Caspian Sea 25, 28

  Cassini, Giovanni Maria 339, 353, 390

  Globo Terrestre 339

  Cassini de Thury, César-François: Description Géométrique de la France 181

  Cassini family 181, 186

  Carte de France 184, 185, 186

  Castillo, Domingo del 121

  Cathay 78, 79, 106, 111

  Catherine of Aragon 326

  Catherine of Braganza 173

  Cazones 138

  Ceylon 33

  Chabrol, Claude 320

  Champlain, Samuel de 360

  Chanceaux, France 61

  Chandler, Nancy 371

  Charles, Prince of Wales 51

  Charles II, King 151, 171, 173, 173

  Charleston 304n

  Chartwell, Kent 327, 328–9, 331–3

  Charybdis 48

  Cheffins, C. F. 228

  Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 269, 270, 271

  The Worst Journey in the World 269, 270, 391

  Chevalier, Nicholas 238

  Chile 138, 271

  Chimneys, The 262–3

  Ch’in Shu 81

  China

  the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148

  and Columbus 106, 107

  first included in map data by Marinus of Tyre 37

  and GPS 378n

  isolationism 81

  ‘The Map of China and Barbarian Lands’ 81, 81

  ‘Maps of the Tracks of Yu The Great’ 81–2

  and Marco Polo 78, 79

  Ogilby’s work 172

  prospects of exploration 79, 81

  and the Silver Map 138

  in The Times Atlas 152

  in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 143

  cholera 223, 224–6, 225, 227,
228–30, 232

  Christie’s auction house, London 181–2

  Christopher, St 111

  Christy, Miller 138, 139

  chronometer 106n

  Chu Ssu-Pen 82–3, 82

  Churchill, Sir Winston 327, 328, 329, 331–5, 347–51, 349

  Churchman, Joseph 162

  Cinnamon Country 28, 34

  circumnavigation of the earth

  Drake’s (1580) 135, 136, 139

  first (1522) 113, 137, 138

  civic maps, earliest 26

  Clark, Chris 417, 420, 421

 

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