The shape of the world

The shape of the world

DVD - 2009

Traces the history of mapmaking from crude clay tablets to sophisticated electronic screens. Experts explain how humans rely on imagination, observation and mathematics to create pictures that make sense of our world. Throughout history, maps have served as symbols of wealth and power, tools of conquest and subjugation, and instruments for saving lives. They once held information worth killing for, and now they offer clues that might avert global destruction.

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Subjects
Cartography > History.
Surveying > History.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Silver Spring, MD] : Acorn Media 2009.
Language
English
Corporate Authors
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), International Business Machines Corporation, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), Granada Television
Corporate Authors
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) (-), International Business Machines Corporation, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), Granada Television
Other Authors
Peter Swain (-), Carol Stowe, Patrick Stewart, 1940-
Edition
Full screen version
Item Description
Title from container.
Originally aired on PBS in 1991.
Special features: The chartbusters: pioneers in cartography; Text interview with Patrick Stewart and biographies of Stewart and series editor Simon Berthon; web extras.
Physical Description
3 v. (DVD)(1 videodisc (ca. 102 min. ea.) per volume) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Fullscreen, stereo.
ISBN
9781598282245
  • v. 1. Heaven and earth ; Secrets of the sea
  • v. 2. Staking a claim ; Empire!
  • v. 3. Pictures of the invisible ; The writing on the screen.

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