Mapping the World: Maps and Their History Book

	Introduction	7
	Babylonian World Map	8
	The Earliest Maps	10
	The Peutinger Map	12
	Roman Mapmaking	14
	Mabada Mosaic Map	16
	Mapping the Holy Land	18
	The Cotton Map	20
	Early Medieval Maps	22
	World Map, Al-Idrisi	24
	The Rise of Islam	26
	Psalter Map	28
	Medieval World Maps	30
	Medieval Route Map	32
	Early Pilgrim Itineraries	34
	The Carte Pisane	36
	Expanding Horizons	38
	Hereford Mappmundi	40
	Mapping the Medieval Mind	42
	World Map, Ranulf Higden	44
	Monastic Books and Maps	46
	Catalan Atlas (Asia)	48
	Marco Polo	50
	Catalan Atlas (Africa), Abraham Cresques	52
	Imagining the Dark Continent	54
	Boarstall Manor	56
	The Medieval Achievement	58
	Cathay, Fra Mauro	60
	Mauro's Mappamundi	62
	Ptolemy's World Map	64
	The Influence of Ptolemy	66
	World Map, Juan de la Cosa	68
	A Spanish View of the World	70
	Carta Marina, Martin Waldseemuller	72
	Naming America	74
	Tenochtitlan	76
	The Conquest of Mexico	78
	The Vallard Chart	80
	Cartier in Canada	82
	Africa, Diogo Homem	84
	A Route to India	86
	Asia, Diogo Homem	88
	Secrecy, Spying, and Spices	90
	Florida, Jacques Le Moyne	92
	Explorers and Settlers	94
	The New World, Abraham Ortelius	96
	The First Atlas	98
	Muscovy, Jenkinson and Ortelius	100
	The Rise of Russia	102
	Tartary, Abraham Ortelius	104
	The Mongols	106
	Frankfurt-on-Main, Braun and Hogenberg	108
	Early Town Plans	110
	London, Braun and Hogenberg	112
	London Rising	114
	The English Channel, Lucas Waghenaer	116
	Into the Age of Fighting Sail	118
	World Map, Rumold Mercator	120
	Mercator's Projection	122
	New Guinea, Gerard and Cornelis de Jode	124
	Seeking the South	126
	China, Jodocus Hondius	128
	Western Strangers	130
	New England, Captain John Smith	132
	Adventurers and Pilgrims	134
	Herefordshire, John Speed	136
	English County Maps	138
	America, John Speed	140
	Into the Pacific	142
	Leo Belgicus, Jodocus Hondius	144
	Novelty Maps	146
	World Map, Willem Blaeu	148
	The Atlas Makers	150
	World Map, Joan Blaeu	152
	The Blaeu Firm	154
	Holland, Willem Blaeu	156
	The Dutch Golden Age	158
	Wales, Joan Blaeu	160
	Uniting the Kingdoms	162
	The Heptarchy, Jan Jansson	164
	Recovering the Past	166
	The Ukraine, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan	168
	France Ascendant	170
	New Netherland, Nicholas Visscher	172
	New Netherland	174
	The Starry Heavens, Andreas Cellarius	176
	Charting the Heavens	178
	Town of Manhattan	180
	The American Colonies	182
	The North Sea, Greenvile Collins	184
	Effective Navigation	186
	North America, Alexis Hubert Jaillot	188
	The French in North America	190
	Ireland, Frederik de Wit	192
	The Mapping of Ireland	194
	Europe, Frederik de Wit	196
	Printed Maps	198
	Africa, Herman Moll	200
	Africa: Still Imagining	202
	The "Beaver" Map, Herman Moll	204
	Struggle for Mastery	206
	Livonia and Courland, Johann Baptist Homann	208
	Sweden: Rise and Fall	210
	America, Jean Baptiste Nolin	212
	The Supremacy of France	214
	Map of France, Cesar Cassini de Thury	216
	The Cassini Family	218
	City of New York, Bernard Ratzer	220
	Toward Independence	222
	Dusky Bay, Captain James Cook	224
	Cook and the Pacific	226
	The Thames River, Ordnance Survey	228
	A National Institution	230
	North America, Lewis and Clark's Expedition	232
	Crossing the Continent	234
	Great Survey of India, William Lambton	236
	Triangulation of the Great Arc	238
	Geological World Map, James Reynolds	240
	Earthly Disputes	242
	Tennessee, Nelson Sayler	244
	Recording the Rocks	246
	Egypt, John Tallis	248
	The Lure of Ancient Egypt	250
	Overland Route to India, John Tallis	252
	The Overwater Route	254
	London Underground, Henry C. Beck	256
	Pioneering Under Ground	258
	New York City Subway	260
	Subway Story	262
	The Ozone Layer	264
	Global Warming	266
	Hurricane Hugo	268
	Forecasting the Weather	270
	The Ocean Floor	272
	Exploring the Depths	274
	El Nino	276
	Wind and Water	278
	San Francisco Bay	280
	Mapping the Planet	282
	Topography of Mars	284
	Exploring Mars	286
	Indianapolis Airport	288
	Air Transport	290
	Star Chart, 2001, Wil Tirion	292
	Camera on the Universe	294
	Manhattan Snapshot, The NYCMap	296
	New York, New York	298
	Further Reading	300
	Index	301
	Picture Credits	304