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BBC 4 Map week!

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  • 17-04-2010 1:27pm
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    mike65
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    Well maps are part of season of related themes

    Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession (Documentary)
    BBC 4 Sunday, April 18th, 2010 9:00pm to 10:00pm

    Windows on the World. Episode 1
    Professor Jerry Brotton shows how maps can be snapshots of defining historical moments and tools of political power and persuasion. Visiting the world's first known map, etched into the rocks of an alpine hillside 3,000 years ago, Brotton explores how each culture develops its own way of mapping. He looks at how the French Cassini dynasty pioneered the quest to map the world with greater scientific accuracy, and the devastation caused when the British carved Iraq out of the Middle East.

    The Beauty of Maps (Documentary)
    BBC 4 Monday, April 19th, 2010 8:30pm to 9:00pm and every night until Thursday in same time slot.


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    Flamed Diving
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    I really like the history of Cartography, actually. Some of the olde maps were really pretty.

    world_map_17th_century_by_hermann_moll_poster-p228736140212550893t5ta_400.jpg

    World Map 17th Century by Hermann Moll


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    mike65
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    I agree, maps can be enigmatic works of art.


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    Tiriel
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    Thanks for posting! I love old maps, remember researching the old maps of Cork when doing my Thesis in Cork. Absolutely amazingly beautiful work on some of them.


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    tim_holsters
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    There's something mystical about ancient maps all that history wrapped up in them.


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    Lu Tze
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    The OSi has a map viewer online

    http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,600000,750000,0

    Ticking the "Historic B&W" box on the right will give you the old 6 inch mapping carried out by the british army circa 1890. Interesting to see how things have changed (dramatic in some parts - check out the blessington lakes around valleymount!)

    For you old map fanatics :)


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    El Siglo
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    John Speed's map of Dublin from 1610, worth a gander even if it is on a website for 12-year-olds.


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