| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Series |
The Palestine Exploration Fund annual, 1753-9234 ; 10 |
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Palestine Exploration Fund annual ; 10
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Western knowledge of the Transjordan region in the first millennium AD; Chapter 2 Medieval scholars, travellers and mapmakers; Table 1. Transjordanian toponyms found on fourteenth-century and fifteenth-century 25 maps; Chapter 3 The first printed maps; Table 2. Transjordanian toponyms on maps from 1475-1525; Table 3. Transjordanian toponyms from the early editions of Quarta Asiae Tabula; Table 4. Transjordanian toponyms from the fifteenth-century Tabula Moderna |
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Chapter 4 Jacob Ziegler: Quae intus continentur and Terrae Sanctae ... DescriptioChapter 5 The sixteenth-century cartographers; Table 5. Transjordanian toponyms from Ziegler (1536) to Mercator (1606); Chapter 6 Seventeenth-century publications; Chapter 7 John Speed and Thomas Fuller; Chapter 8 Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century travellers in Transjordan and their maps; Chapter 9 Nineteenth-century exploration and mapping of Transjordan; Chapter 10 The triangulation of Transjordan; Chapter 11 The modern identification of ancient sites |
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Table 6. Identification of biblical and classical sites in Transjordan from Robinson and Smith (1841) to the presentBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"This book shows how travellers and scholars since Roman times have put together their maps of the land east of the River Jordan. It traces the contribution of Roman armies and early Christian pilgrims and medieval European travellers, Crusading armies, learned scholars like Jacob Ziegler, sixteenth-century mapmakers like Mercator and Ortelius, eighteenth-century travellers and savants, and nineteenth-century biblical scholars and explorers like Robinson and Smith, culminating in the late-nineteenth century surveyors working for the Palestine Exploration Fund. This original and valuable book shows, with full illustrations, how maps of the Transjordan region developed through the centuries, and with its detailed tables and bibliography will aid future scholars in further research. The author took part in archaeological excavations and surveys in Jordan, was Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, has published research papers and books on ancient Jordan. John Bartlett was the editor of the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, and until recently was the Chairman of the Palestine Exploration Fund."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Jordan
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
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Cartography
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Historical geography
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| SUBJECT |
Jordan -- Historical geography
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| Subject |
Jordan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351559270 |
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1351559273 |
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