Coordinates of Uncertainty : World Maps Colonial Navigation and Maritime Surveying Failures

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Epubli, 2026

3565464968 / 9783565464968

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Empires trusted islands that never existed. For centuries, phantom territories occupied official world maps, appearing in naval registries, shipping routes, and colonial planning despite repeated failures to locate them again. The history of maritime surveying reveals how institutions preserved geographic mistakes long after doubt emerged.From Renaissance Europe to twentieth-century hydrographic offices, mapmaking depended on inherited authority. A captain's observation could become permanent through repetition in commercial atlases and government archives. Colonial navigation systems rewarded speed over verification, allowing imaginary landforms to survive across generations of charts. In the Pacific and Southern Oceans, crews chased coastlines distorted by storms, magnetic confusion, and atmospheric illusion. Some phantom islands became diplomatic reference points; others influenced military planning and insurance calculations.Drawing from exploration journals, naval archives, and modern satellite analysis, this book reconstructs the bureaucratic machinery that sustained cartographic fiction. It examines why institutions resisted correction and how technological progress slowly dismantled centuries of accumulated geographic assumptions. The transition from celestial navigation to orbital imaging transformed not only maps but the political meaning of certainty itself.The erasure of phantom islands exposed a fragile truth beneath modern geography: even the most authoritative systems can preserve error when belief becomes administrative routine.…

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Titolo
Coordinates of Uncertainty : World Maps Colonial Navigation and Maritime Surveying Failures
Autore
Isabelle Collins
Editore
Epubli
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
Neu
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Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
3565464968
ISBN 13
9783565464968
Peso dell'articolo
519 grammi
Dimensioni
210x12x2 mm

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