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A History of the World in 12 Maps

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by Jerry Brotton


  Miletus 25, 26

  military value of maps 296, 330, 385

  Miller cylindrical projection 389

  Milner, Alfred 347

  Ming dynasty 114, 115, 120, 122, 140–42

  Minorca 86

  On the Misery of the Human Condition (Innocent III) 108

  Mitchell, William J. 432

  Mnemosyne 24–5

  MO4 (GSGS) 441

  Mollweide, Karl Brandan, 342

  map projection 341, 342, 389

  Moluccas 191, 192, 193, 196, 197–9, 201–17, 227, 264

  Monachus, Franciscus 225, 240

  money from mapmaking 263–93, 429–31

  Monmonier, Mark 384

  Monoculi 89

  Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de 297

  Moseley, Henry 347

  Mountains of the Moon 58, 65

  MSN Maps 433

  Multimap 420, 433

  Mundus Novus 163–4, 165

  Munich ‘Isidore’ mappamundi 103–5

  Münster, Sebastian 178

  Murdoch equidistant conic projection 341

  Muslim world maps 55–81

  Mussolini, Benito 369

  Nancy, Battle of 159

  Napoleon I 330–31

  NASA

  first extraterrestrial photograph of the earth 405

  maps of the Solar system 259

  National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) 414, 443

  national consciousness 294–336, 373–4

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

  National Gallery exhibition, Washington, ‘Circa 1492 : Art in the Age of Exploration’ 148

  National Geographical Society 379, 381

  National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) 422

  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 368

  De natura rerum (Isidore of Seville) 100

  Natural History (Pliny the Elder) 106

  ‘The Natural Seats of Power’ world map (Mackinder) 362–3, 363, 364–5, 372, 431

  The Nature of Things (Isidore of Seville) 100

  Naumann, Michael 148–9

  Nazism

  ‘Final Solution’ 375–6

  Hitler’s invasion of Russia 367

  Nazi–Soviet Pact 367

  Nazi theory of geopolitics 369

  and Peters 385

  and the power of maps 374–6

  and World War II 367–8, 375–6

  NCGIA (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis) 414, 443

  Needham, Joseph 131

  Neo-Confucianism 115, 138, 141

  Neoplatonism 99–100

  Netherlands

  Amsterdam see Amsterdam

  Austrian 315

  Blaeu dynasty 265–93

  Blaeu’s maps of 286–7

  Dutch astronomy 267

  Dutch Calvinist culture 265–6

  Dutch industry of mapmaking 263–93

  Dutch painters 272–3

  Dutch Republic 260–93

  Eighty Years War 261

  Spanish 267, 308

  States General 264, 273, 275, 290

  Thirty Years War 261

  twelve-year truce 274

  United Provinces see United Provinces

  network society 409–10

  New Atlantis (Bacon) 299

  The New Cartography (Peters) 380–81, 383, 390–93

  ‘The New Geography’ (Mackinder) 347–8

  New Internationalist 379–80

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

  New Testament 219

  Hebrews 107

  Luke 90, 92

  Revelation 87, 90, 243

  ‘New Unknown Lands’ (Newe unbekanthe landte) 179

  ‘New World Map by Willem Janszoon’ 268–72, 270–71

  New York Times 150

  New Zealand 261

  Newe unbekanthe landte (‘New Unknown Lands’) 179

  Newfoundland 201

  Newton, Isaac 302, 308, 309–11, 314

  Nicodoxus 91–2

  Nicolas of Lynn 248

  Nile Delta 18, 51

  Nile, river 58, 65, 87, 88, 96, 103, 105, 248

  NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency) 422

  nine, number, in Chinese classification 126–7

  Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) 369

  Nivala, Annu-Maaria 433

  Noah’s Ark 87, 96, 103, 104–5

  noise-free communication 411–12, 414, 436

  nonary squares 126–7, 137

  Normans 54–5, 56, 67–9

  North Korea 408

  north orientation of maps 10–11, 58, 139–40, 152

  Nova orbis terrarum geographica (Blaeu) 268–72, 270–71

  Novus Atlas (Joan Blaeu) 283–4

  Novus Atlas (Willem Blaeu) 278

  Noyce, Bob 413

  Nuremberg 162–3, 168

  Nuzhat 73

  Nyx 24

  Oceanus (god) 24–5

  Oceanus Occidentalis (Western Sea) 174, 178

  Ochtervelt, Jacob 272

  OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) 398

  (Greek inhabited world) 24, 26, 31, 41, 44–6, 49–50, 405

  size 36–7, 40

  Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van 274

  online mapping 15, 296, 405–36, 444

  Onomasticon (Eusebius) 93

  On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (Copernicus) 42, 262

  ‘The Orders and Ranks of the Patriarchal Thrones’ (Doxapatres) 70

  Ordnance Survey 259, 296, 297, 332–3, 339, 344, 441, 442

  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 398

  orientation of maps 10–11

  Islamic maps 57–8

  Kangnido map 118, 139–40

  mappaemundi 85, 96

  northern 10–11, 58, 139–40, 152

  Peters map of the world 392

  Waldseemüller map 151–2

  Origins see Etymologies (Isidore of Seville)

  ‘The Origins of Physics’ (Melanchthon) 230

  Orosius, Paulus 71, 75, 84, 106

  History against the Pagans 71, 99–100

  Orry, Philibert 311–12

  Ortelius, Abraham 10, 15, 236, 258, 263, 275, 298

  orthographic projection 233, 389, 393–6, 394

  orthophanic projection 381

  Orvieto, Italy 82, 83

  Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four 369

  Oxfam 380

  Oxford Kriegspiel Society 347

  Oxford Union 347

  Oxford University 348, 350–51

  Extension movement 347

  Pacific Ocean 191, 196–7

  in the Waldseemüller map 150, 175

  Paektu, Mount 138, 139, 140

  Paesi novamenti retrovati (‘Lands Recently Discovered’) 179

  Page, Larry 422–3, 427–8

  PageRank 423, 427–8, 431

  Pakistan 373–4

  Palermo, Sicily 54, 68–9, 70

  Palestine map, Liber locorum (Jerome) 93, 94–5, 96

  Palmyra 62

  Panama Canal 363

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

  Parameters 372

  Paris 86, 294–5, 297, 320

  Cassini III’s map of 321, 322

  and Greenwich 332

  map trade 315

  meridian 302, 306, 308, 313–14, 325

  Observatory 298–300, 309, 319, 326, 329, 333

  regional mapping 301, 304–5, 306
/>   Reign of Terror 329

  Parmenides 28, 31

  Parsons, Ed 427, 428, 429

  Patte, Pierre 324

  Paulusz, Dionysus 282

  Pauw, Reynier 274

  Peace of Westphalia 261–2

  Pecham, John 82–3, 109, 111

  Pei Xiu 130–31

  Penck, Albrecht, International Map of the World 439–44, 445

  People of the Book (ahl al-) 56

  Pergamon 38

  ‘Period of the Warring States’ (Zhanguo) 127–8, 129

  Periodikum 388

  periodos see circuit of the earth

  Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 43

  Perot, Ross 149

  Perrenot, Antoine 238

  Persia 58, 61

  perspective of maps 8–11

  General Perspective Projection 435

  Peschel, Oscar 352

  Petermann, August Heinrich 352

  Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen (PGM) 352

  Peters, Arno 378, 379–80, 383–94, 396, 397, 403, 404, 437

  Mercator compared with 387–8, 391

  The New Cartography 380–81, 383, 390–93

  The Peters Atlas of the World 380, 383, 403

  Peters projection 378–404, 415–16, 434

  Synchronoptische Weltgeschichte 386–8

  world map 378–83, 384, 390–93, 401–2, 438–9

  ‘Peutinger Map’ 51

  Phaedo (Plato) 70, 405

  Pharos tower 17

  Philesius, Matthias see Ringmann, Matthias

  Philip II of Spain 258

  Philippines 197

  in the Kangnido map 118

  Philli 88

  Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton) 302

  Phoebe 24–5

  Picard, Jean 298, 301–6, 308, 311

  Carte de France corrigée 306–7, 307

  ‘Carte particulière des environs de Paris’ 304–5, 306

  ‘Picture of the Earth’

  Ibn 65

  62

  Pigafetta, Antonio 193, 194, 197, 198

  pinax 4, 22, 24

  Plancius, Petrus 264, 266, 267, 268, 269

  Plato 28–9, 98, 246, 405

  Phaedo 70, 405

  Pliny the Elder: Natural History 106

  pluralism, clerical 82–3

  Plutarch 25

  Poetics of Space (Bachelard) 398

  Pole Star 58

  Policlitus 91–2

  political geography 17, 67, 71, 78, 128, 141, 227, 349–50, 354, 369, 370, 374, 376

  beginnings of 56

  Eurocentrism 220, 379, 384, 393

  France and the representation of political boundaries on maps 298

  global warfare and geopolitics 370

  globalism and the Ribeiro world maps 186–217

  and Google Earth 408

  ideological language of geopolitics 370–71

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

  and the International Map of the World 439–44

  and Islam 63

  Mackinder and geopolitics 346–72, 374

  Nazi theory of geopolitics 369

  and the partitioning of India 373–4

  political cartographic manipulation 373–7, 385, 386, 403

  political equality and the Peters projection 378–404

  propaganda maps 374–5, 375

  and ‘spatial law’ 408

  Political Geography (Ratzel) 370

  polyconic projection 342

  Pompadour, Madam de 322

  Pompey 39–40

  portolan sailing charts 11, 152, 249, 250

  Portuguese

  arrival in India 155, 188, 189

  Cantino planisphere 190–91

  capture of Malacca 191, 192

  Carreira da India 189

  Casa da Mina e India 200

  conflict with Castile over the Moluccas 191–2, 193, 196, 197–200, 201–17

  cosmographers 250

  discoveries about circumnavigation of Africa 162, 173, 187

  empire 155, 186–7, 189, 191–2

  mapmaking by Portuguese trade organizations 200–201

  maps of India 189–90

  and the Treaty of Tordesillas 186–7, 199, 203, 213

  Posidonius 39–40, 236

  ‘The Position and Borders of the Promised Land’ (Cranach) 228–9, 230–31

  ‘Positions of the Heavenly Bodies in their Natural Order and their Allocated Celestial Fields’ 116–17

  Powers of Ten 416

  prehistoric inscriptions 3–4

  Prester John (mythical king) 172

  The Primeval Man Unveiled (Gall) 394

  printing revolution 157–9, 162–3, 184

  Priuli, Girolamo 186–7

  The Production of Space (Lefebvre) 399

  projection of maps 11–12, 232–6, 234

  azimuthal 233, 234, 342

  and conformality see conformality

  cordiform 233, 234, 235–7, 247

  cylindrical 232, 251–3, 268, 389, 395

  eighteenth- and nineteenth-century projections 340–42, 341

  equal-area see equal-area projection

  and imperialism 364–5, 366

  interrupted projections 389, 393

  Marinus 46, 232

  and mathematics 232, 253–4, 340–42, 341, 343–4, 390

  Mercator see Mercator projection

  and navigation 249–54, 256

  onto globes 224–5

  orthographic 233, 389, 393–6, 394

  orthophanic 381

  Peters projection 378–404, 415–16, 434

  pole-based 233–5, 341

  and political equality 378–404

  polyconic 342

  pseudo-conic 341, 342

  pseudo-cylindrical 341, 342, 389

  Ptolemy 46–50, 47, 52–3, 175–8, 232, 435

  Renaissance projection diagrams 234

  transverse equirectangular 319

  twentieth-century projection diagrams 389

  twin hemispherical stereographic 256, 287–8

  Waldseemüller map 175–8

  Prometheus 25

  propaganda maps 374–5, 375

  proportionality, cartographical 392

  protectionism 356–7, 360

  Providence, Divine 102

  pseudo-conic projection 341, 342

  pseudo-cylindrical projection 389

  equal-area 341, 342

  Ptolemaic dynasty 17–19, 21, 38, 52

  Ptolemy III 35

  Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) 11, 19, 20–21, 98, 155, 157, 195, 224, 232, 246, 249, 405, 437

  Almagest 41–3, 70

  Behaim and the maps of 195

  in Blaeu’s 1662 world map 288

  Castilians and the authority of 206

  in Cosmographia introductio 165–6, 167

  ‘Guide to Geography’ see Ptolemy’s Geography

  Magellan’s reliance on maps of 197, 206

  and the Waldseemüller map 152, 153–4, 171–2, 175, 176–8, 179

  Ptolemy’s Geography 19–21, 41, 43–53, 47, 435

  and world map 60–61

  Alexandrian setting of 17–19

  Greek and Hellenistic background to 21–43

  and Islamic maps 60–61, 62–3, 71, 73, 75–6

  and the Kangnido map 119

  maps in 20, 51–2

  projections 46–50, 47, 52–3, 175–8, 232, 435

  Renaissance editions 160–62, 163–5, 179, 180–82, 256

  Punjab 373

  Py
e, Norman 380

  dispute 141

  Pythagoras 28, 29

  Pytheas of Massalia 33–4

  Qin dynasty 128, 129

  Qingjun 122, 123

  map of China 121, 122, 122

  quadrivium 101–2, 157

  Quarterly Review 338

  Quételet, Adolphe 343

  Quintilian 224

  57, 59, 70, 87–8

  Radcliffe Award 373–4

  Radcliffe Boundary Commission 373

  Radcliffe, Sir Cyril 373

  Raleigh Travellers Club 337

  Ramamurthy, V. S. 408

  Ramusio, Giovanni Battista 259

  Rand McNally 379, 381

  Raqqa 62

  Rassam, Hormuzd 1

  Ratzel, Friedrich 370

  Reading University 348

  Reael, Laurens 277, 278, 279

  Reformation 219, 221, 222–3, 257

  Calvinism see Calvinism/Calvinists

  Lutheranism 219, 227–30, 231, 235–6, 238

  Reinel, Jorge 195–6, 201, 202

  Reinel, Pedro 195–6, 201, 202

  Reisch, Gregor 157

  De la religion nationale (Fauchet) 327

  religious repression/intolerance 218, 219, 221, 239–40, 243, 259

  religious tolerance 219, 257

  Remonstrants 274, 277, 283

  Renaissance, European 10, 155–63, 235

  and America 148, 150–51

  diagrams of different Renaissance map projections 234

  end of 262–3

  geography 259

  printing revolution 157–9, 162–3, 184

  Renaissance editions of Ptolemy’s Geography 160–62, 163–5, 179, 180–82, 256

  self-fashioning 220

  and the Waldseemüller map 146–57, 163–85

  René II, duke of Lorraine 159

  Rennel, James 344

  Republic (Cicero) 98

  Republic (Plato) 98

  Revelation, Book of 87, 90, 243

  On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (Copernicus) 42, 262

  Rhea 24–5

  Rheingold, Erasmus 242

  Rhodes 35, 39–40

  rhumb lines/loxodromes 249–51, 251, 253

  Rhumb Lines and Map Wars (Monmonier) 384

  Ribeiro, Diogo 195, 196, 201–2, 203, 205, 207

  world maps 207–9, 210–11, 212–16, 431, 437

  Richard of Haldingham 109, 110

  Richard of Lafford 109

  Richthofen, Ferdinand von 352

  Ringmann, Matthias 160, 163, 164, 165, 179, 184

  Cosmographia introductio 165–7, 179, 180–81

  Universalis cosmographia see Waldseemüller map, Universalis cosmographia

  Ritter, Karl 338, 340, 348, 352

  Robaert, Augustijn 264

  Robinson, Arthur 381, 382, 397, 438, 443

  map communication model 411–12

  map projection 379, 381, 389, 397

  rock art, prehistoric 3–4

 

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