Mapping the Next Millennium : How Computer-Driven Cartography is Revolutionizing the Face of Science

Hall, Stephen S.

ISBN 10: 0679741755 / ISBN 13: 9780679741756

Published by Vintage Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1993

About this Item

477 pages incl notes. Clean black background soft covers with light wear to covers' corners and edges. Colour plates. Several small marks to page-edges o/w pages clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping the Next Millennium : How Computer-Driven Cartography is Revolutionizing the Face of Science
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679741755
• ISBN 13: 9780679741756
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Vintage Books Edition (Pbk)
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Discusses the use of innovative new techniques to map diverse areas of the universe, from the mathmatical constant pi, to human chromosomes, to the ocean floor

From the Inside Flap

tunning and conceptually explosive report from the frontiers of mapmaking. Ranging from the mapping of the ocean floor to the scanning of remote galaxies, from portraits of subatomic collisions to an unprecedented view of the mathematical constant "pi, " this work makes the theoretical compellingly concrete, even as it reminds us that the world is far more vast than we ever dreamed. Photographs throughout.