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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vol. 1: 1 / 1 copies available
vol. 2: 1 / 1 copies available
vol. 3: 1 / 1 copies available
- Subjects
- Genres
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Published
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[Silver Spring, MD] :
Acorn Media
2009.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- 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.