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Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge. Ernesto Capello surveys both the technical history of relief representation and the broad history of the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains.

Produktbeschreibung
Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge. Ernesto Capello surveys both the technical history of relief representation and the broad history of the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains.
Autorenporträt
Ernesto Capello (Ph.D. Texas, 2005) is Professor of History at Macalester College. He has published City at the Center of the World: Space, History and Modernity in Quito (Pittsburgh, 2011) and numerous articles on cities, mountains, and visuality in science.