A history of cartography tracing the adventures, discoveries & feats of technical ingenuity by which humans have mapped the earth's surface & interior, ocean floors, the moon & planets.
Preface
1. Prologue at Dana Butte
The map idea
The librarian who measured earth
First principles of Ptolemy
The topography of myth & dogma
1492
Mercator squares the circle
2. Yaki Point
The matter of a degree
The family that mapped France
John Harrison's timepiece
Surveyors of sea & shore
Soldiers, pundits & the India survey
Mapping America: the boundary makers
Mapping America: westward the topographers
meters, meridians & a new world map
3. Bright Angel Point
The winged mappers
Radar over the Amazon
Deep horizons
A continent beneath the ice
Mountains of the sea
Transcontinental precision
Maps for the new geography
4. The flight out
Mapping from space
Extraterrestrial mapping: the moon
Extraterrestrial mapping: Mars
Bibliographical Notes
Acknowledgments
Index