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Map Of A Nation (2010)

by Rachel Hewitt(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1847080987 (ISBN13: 9781847080981)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Granta Books (UK)

review 1: I like maps, particularly OS Maps, so having seen positive reviews of this book I was keen to read it. It's a comprehensive account of the background to and production of the first one-inch series of OS Maps for the whole country, a task which from first proposals to the publication of the final map which completed the series took around 100 years! This is a scholarly book, with copious references (more than I have ever encountered in any other book I've read), yet eminently readable all the same. Rachel Hewitt's enthusiasm for the subject shines through, and I look forward to further books from her in the future. Having read the book, I would love to see a practical demonstration of some of the instruments that she describes which were used to carry out the survey, and al... moreso to see how the data is taken from the surveys, engraved and used to produce a printed map.
review 2: William Roy was a mapmaker who covered the post Culloden repression of Scotland to the triangulation of the distance between London and Paris. Using a base line at Hounslow heath in 1787. The Scots got as far as Derby in 1745. The period following Culloden is known as the period of enlightenment; there where huge changes in I scientific understanding in this period. The 1st jigsaws were reproduction of Maps and where used as a teaching aid for children and adults alike. A metre was established after the French revolution and is based on 10-6 of the distance between the North Pole and the equator. The enlightenment adopted maps as emblems of reason. Wordworth quote “Dreaming o’er the map of things”.William Mudge was the director of OS from 1820 for 29 years. He was succeeded by Thomas Coly who completed the survey of Ireland. The first England map was published 1st January 1870, southwest Northumberland. less

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