Mapping Jordan through two millennia
| 1. Verfasser: |
Bartlett, John R. (John Raymond)
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|---|---|
| Körperschaft: |
Palestine Exploration Fund
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leeds, UK :
Maney,
2008.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 163 p., 16 p. of plates : maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
The Palestine Exploration Fund annual,
10 |
| ISBN: | 1905981406 9781905981403 |
| ISSN: | 1753-9234 ; |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Western knowledge of the Transjordan region in the first millennium AD
- Medieval scholars, travellers and mapmakers
- The first printed maps
- Jacob Ziegler : Quae intus continentur and Terrae sanctae-- descriptio
- The sixteenth-century cartographers
- Seventeenth-century publications
- John Speed and Thomas Fuller
- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travellers in Transjordan and their maps
- Nineteenth-century exploration and mapping of Transjordan
- The triangulation of Transjordan
- The modern identification of ancient sites
