Mapping Jordan through two millennia / John R. Bartlett.

• Western knowledge of the Transjordan region in the first millennium AD -- Medieval scholars, travellers and mapmakers -- The first printed maps -- Jacob Ziegler : Quae intus continentur and Terrae sanctae-- descriptio -- The sixteenth-century cartographers -- Seventeenth-century publications -- John Speed and Thomas Fuller -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travellers in Transjordan and their maps -- Nineteenth-century exploration and mapping of Transjordan -- The triangulation of Transjordan -- The modern identification of ancient sites.

Ämnesord

Kartografi  -- Jordanien (sao)

Cartography  -- Jordan. (LCSH)

Geografi  (sao)

Historisk geografi  (sao)

Historical geography  (LCSH)

Geography  (LCSH)

Jordanien  (sao)

Jordan  -- Historical geography. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

GA1340.J67 (LCC)

912.5695 (DDC)

N(ya) (kssb/8 (machine generated))