| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 477 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-454) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Latitude, longitude, infinitude : scientific mapping and the reinvention of geography -- Planetary landscapes, ours and others: 1. "We do precision guesswork" : the navigational chart of Voyager 2 and the grand tour of the solar system. 2. Ground truth : Landsat maps and the remote-sensing revolution. 3. The hidden crucible : gravity anomalies and a map of the ocean floor. 4. A particular discontinuity : a map of the earth's core and mantle. 5. Plausible fortunes : paleoclimate maps and computer nmodels of global warming. 6. The hole in the roof of the sky : ultraviolet spectrometers and a map of the ozone layer -- The animate landscape: 7. Vesalius revisited : computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and the revolution in diagnostic imaging. 8. "The brain is wet" : maps of peptide receptors in the brain. 9. A most unsatisfactory organism : "Riflips" and maps of human genes. 10. Head stuff and tail stuff : fate maps and the geography of the fertilized egg. 11. A saga of low cunning : mapping the atomic interactions of DNA and proteins -- Probalistic landscapes, atomic and mathematical: 12. "Here one saw little hills" : mapping atomic surfaces with scanning probe microscopes. 13. One picture, worth billion bytes : a fractal map of Pi and the future of cartography. 14. The Lakes of Wada : a map of chaos and destiny. 15. Stiff tracks : the cartography of subatomic particles in detectors -- Astronomical and cosmological landscapes: 16. Star noise : a map of molecular clouds in the Milky Way. 17. The great attractor : a map of peculiar motions and the large-scale flow of galaxies. 18. The universe according to John Huchra : bubbles, voids, the Great Wall, and, perhaps, the death of the Big Bang -- Conclusion: "Elephants for want of towns" : the map as fallible object. |
| Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
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| ISBN |
0394576357 |
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