LEADER 04364nam 2200745 450 001 9910463654003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-78940-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226789408 035 $a(CKB)3390000000052640 035 $a(EBL)1634051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001111319 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11636860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001111319 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11130860 035 $a(PQKB)11620896 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1634051 035 $a(DE-B1597)523707 035 $a(OCoLC)1125186701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226789408 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1634051 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10839083 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL585328 035 $a(OCoLC)870950678 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000052640 100 $a20120112h20122012 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAncient perspectives $emaps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome /$fedited by Richard J. A. Talbert 210 1$aChicago ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 1 $aThe Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-78937-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe expression of terrestrial and celestial order in ancient Mesopotamia by / Francesca Rochberg -- From topography to cosmos: ancient Egypt's multiple maps / by David O'Connor -- Mapping the world: Greek initiatives from Homer to Eratosthenes / by Georgia L. Irby -- Ptolemy's geography: mapmaking and the scientific enterprise / by Alexander Jones -- Greek and Roman surveying and surveying instruments / by Michael Lewis -- Urbs Roma to orbis romanus: Roman mapping on the grand scale / by Richard J.A. Talbert -- Putting the world in order: mapping in Roman texts / by Benet Salway. 330 $aAncient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time-Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE-to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy's ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor's rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares. 410 0$aKenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography. 606 $aCartography$zIraq$xHistory 606 $aCartography$zEgypt$xHistory 606 $aCartography$zGreece$xHistory 606 $aCartography$zRome$xHistory 606 $aGeography, Ancient 606 $aSurveying$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCartography$xHistory. 615 0$aCartography$xHistory. 615 0$aCartography$xHistory. 615 0$aCartography$xHistory. 615 0$aGeography, Ancient. 615 0$aSurveying$xHistory. 676 $a526.09/01 702 $aTalbert$b Richard J. A.$f1947-, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463654003321 996 $aAncient perspectives$91322975 997 $aUNINA