By Christine Petto
This booklet starts off with an research of the imagery of strength on map and atlas frontispieces from the past due 16th century to the 17th century. within the succeeding chapters the point of interest strikes from county and neighborhood mapping efforts in England and France to the “paper wars” over encroachment of their respective colonial pursuits. the ultimate learn appears to be like at charting efforts and highlights the function of presidency aid and the economic alternate within the improvement of maritime charts not just for the house waters of the English Channel, however the far away and hazardous seas of the East Indies.
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