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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"history of cartography"”.
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Mapping spaces: towards a quantitative methodology for exploring maps and mapping in early modern Ireland, c.1530-1610
This thesis assesses the evolution of historic maps of Ireland using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative approaches. Each of nineteen early modern maps dating to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (c.1530 – 1610), a formative period of Irish cartographic history, was …
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Mapping spaces : towards a quantitative methodology for exploring maps and mapping in early modern Ireland, c.1530-1610
This thesis assesses the evolution of historic maps of Ireland using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative approaches. Each of nineteen early modern maps dating to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (c.1530 – 1610), a formative period of Irish cartographic history, was …
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Operational images and the interpretive turn
… for the increasingly voluminous and rapid ingest of images. These images, made for machine legibility, are called "operational images," a term coined by Harun Farocki. They are made for machines, by machines; they are not made to represent an object, but are part of an operation. Yet these …
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Re-mapping the Arctic: contemporary approaches to practising cartography across diverse knowledge traditions
… through examining the theoretical and practical history of cartography, both as a discipline, and as applied to the Arctic. In doing so, I make the argument for an inextricable link between cartography and knowledge production across supposedly different ‘knowledge traditions’, through the …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… Zionist forces emptied the western quarters of Jerusalem and its environs of their indigenous Arab inhabitants leading to the displacement and dispossession of an estimated 60,000 Palestinians. (Cattan, 2000 p. 45) In this practice-based thesis, I investigate the 'urbicide' of Jerusalem - a …
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Conventional signs, imperial designs: mapping the Gold Coast, 1874-1957
… challenges conventional cartographic histories of Africa that invariably present a Eurocentric view of the mapping of the continent. These histories typically consider tend to position the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 as the key moment in the mapping of Africa by European explorers, …