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UNINA9910785454203321 |
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Monmonier Mark S |
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Rhumb lines and map wars : a social history of the Mercator projection / / Mark Monmonier |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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1-282-90461-2 |
9786612904615 |
0-226-53432-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Mercator projection (Cartography) |
Cartography - Social aspects |
Loxodrome |
Peters projection (Cartography) |
Navigation |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index. |
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Bearings straight? an introduction -- Early sailing charts -- Mercator's résumé -- Revealing replicas -- The Wright approach -- Travelers' aide -- Soldiering on -- On track -- Wall maps and worldviews -- Size matters -- Points of view. |
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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines-clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing-for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse-often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways-for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the |
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Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970's and 1980's, these dueling projections vied for public support-with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time. |
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UNINA9910523801903321 |
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Autore |
Gusikhin Oleg |
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Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics : 17th International Conference, ICINCO 2020 Lieusaint - Paris, France, July 7–9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Oleg Gusikhin, Kurosh Madani, Janan Zaytoon |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (647 pages) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, , 1876-1119 ; ; 793 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MadaniKurosh |
ZaytoonJanan |
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Computational intelligence |
Artificial intelligence |
Automatic control |
Computational Intelligence |
Artificial Intelligence |
Control and Systems Theory |
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Preface -- Organization -- Conference Co-chairs -- Program Chair -- Program Committee -- Additional Reviewers -- Invited Speakers -- Contents -- Mini-Sym 4.0. a Novel Simulation Tool to Calculate Real-time Production Line Productivity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From the Micro-term to the Long-term -- 3 Characterization of Mini-term Deterioration in a Real Welding Station -- 3.1 Pathologies Analysed -- 3.2 Experimental Test -- 4 Welding Line, Modelling and Simulation -- 5 Welding Line Simulation -- 5.1 Definition of the Simulation Tool -- 5.2 Definition of the Simulation Tool -- 5.3 Calculation of Engineering Running Rate for Each Model -- 5.4 Calculation of Engineering Running Rate Based on Production -- 5.5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusions and Future Works -- References -- Constrained Reachability Problems for a Planar Manipulator -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A General Optimal Control Problem for Constrainded Reachability -- 3 Exact and Approximated Distance Formulas for Obstacles -- 3.1 Distance Formulas from the Ellipse -- 3.2 Distance Function from General Obstacles -- 4 Optimal Control of a Class of Hyper-redundant Manipulators |
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The book focuses the latest endeavours relating researches and developments conducted in fields of Control, Robotics and Automation. Through more than ten revised and extended articles, the present book aims to provide the most up-to-date state-of-art of the aforementioned fields allowing researcher, PhD students and engineers not only updating their knowledge but also benefiting from the source of inspiration that represents the set of selected articles of the book. The deliberate intention of editors to cover as well theoretical facets of those fields as their practical accomplishments and implementations offers the benefit of gathering in a same volume a factual and well-balanced prospect of nowadays research in those topics. A special attention toward “Intelligent Robots and Control” may characterize another benefit of this book. . |
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