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Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century Claudius Ptolemaeus ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14th century, all of them showing Thebes ' ( Diospolis ) location.
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* Khatib, Hisham ( 2003 ) Palestine and Egypt Under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts I. B. Tauris, ISBN 1-86064-888-6
* Breasted, James Henry, A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, with Illustrations and Maps, New York, Bantam Books, 1967.
Maps and based
Maps based on scientific principles had been made since the time of Eratosthenes ( 3rd century BC ), but Ptolemy improved projections.
Largest parts of the earth surface displayed on web mapping services like Google Maps / Google Earth, MSN Maps or Yahoo Maps are based on enhanced and color balanced Landsat 7 imagery.
This confidence is based on data and / or models and is usually mapped on Common Risk Segment Maps ( CRS Maps ).
Considered radical when published, The Power of Maps has been a linchpin of the “ new cartographies ” in which maps are redefined as socially constructed arguments based upon consistent semiotic codes.
Maps based on recent exploration reports were always, when possible, complemented with route maps from previous expeditions.
* In The Look of Maps ( 1952 ) which was based on his Doctoral research, Robinson urged cartographers to consider the function of a map as an integral part of the design process.
Maps of pointed spaces ( based maps ) are continuous maps preserving basepoints, i. e. a continuous map f: X → Y such that f ( x < sub > 0 </ sub >) = y < sub > 0 </ sub >.
Maps of pointed sets ( based maps ) are those functions that map one basepoint to another, i. e. a map such that.
Maps based on Ptolemy ’ s Geographica show Ptolemy ’ s definition of the inhabited world as ( roughly ) extending from the equator to latitude 66 ° N, covering the land mass between the Atlantic Ocean and East China Sea.
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There had been a dispute on Google Maps regarding a forested terrain at the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border where border troops of Nicaragua had been stationed.
Gibson later commented on the origin of the term in the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories:
The Studio Notes section of the November 27 issue of Rolling Stone stated that " Devo are working on their first album of new material since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps.
Maps can be more useful than globes in many situations: they are more compact and easier to store ; they readily accommodate an enormous range of scales ; they are viewed easily on computer displays ; they can facilitate measuring properties of the terrain being mapped ; they can show larger portions of the Earth's surface at once ; and they are cheaper to produce and transport.
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* Maps are usually labelled to indicate which direction on the map corresponds to a direction on the earth,
No Maps on My Taps, the Emmy award winning PBS documentary of 1979, helped begin the recent revival of tap dance.
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Maps and century
Maps from the early 16th century already put flags in these colours next to this region, like Texeira's map of 1520.
The modern name ' Arbroath ' became more common in the mid-19th century, with the older name being largely dispensed with by the time of the first edition of the Ordnance Survey Maps.
Maps from the 1830s show the scarp labelled " General Darlings Range "; this later became Darling Range, a name by which the formation was still commonly known in the late 20th century, despite common understanding of it being an escarpment.
" Maps from the early 18th century call it " Cussate ," " Hogohegee ," " Callamaco ," and " Acanseapi.
World gazetteers were written by the Japanese in the 19th century, such as the " Kon ' yo zushiki " (' Annotated Maps of the World ') published by Mitsukuri Shōgo in 1845, the " Hakkō tsūshi " (' Comprehensive Gazetteer of the Entire World ') by Mitsukuri Genpo in 1856, and the " Bankoku zushi " (' Illustrated Gazetteer of the Nations of the World '), which was written by an Englishman named Colton, translated by Sawa Ginjirō, and printed by Tezuka Ritsu in 1862.
Maps published subsequently in Europe during the 16th century, including those by Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, correctly showed California as a peninsula.
Maps from the early 18th century, show the Thumb of Michigan as Le Pays Plat, which is French and means the Flat Country.
Historic survey maps from the mid-19th century ( the so-called ' Black Maps ') indicate that the habitat that the river passed through was abundant in flax ( harakeke ), toetoe, raupo, tutu and ferns and was dotted with ti kouka ( cabbage tree ).
Charles Hapgood began studying the map in the middle of the 20th century and published the book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings in 1966.
On first edition OSI Maps ( early to mid 19th century ) the townland is named ' Mount Merrion or Callary ', and that name is still in evidenced by Callary Road which runs to the east of Foster Ave.
* Maps nearly 3, 000 maps on India and South and Southeast Asia, around 1, 200 topographic maps of the Anglo-Saxon scale ( 1 inch / 1mile ) dating from the first half of the 20th century and an equal number of topographic maps at the metric scale ( most of them 1 / 50, 000 and nearly 200 sheets at 1 / 250, 000 ) obtained from the Survey of India and covering most of the Indian subcontinent.
Another notable text in big history is David Christian's Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which explores the trajectory of history from the first microseconds after the Big Bang, to the creation of the Solar System, the origins of life on Earth, the evolution of humans, the agricultural revolution, modernity, and the 20th century.
Maps from the 19th century show that it was a road at that time and it is probably older ; its original name was Toot Hill Butts as the road ran through an ancient field of that name.
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