Topography Books

[Maricel Fergason]

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Topography books are often consulted for their illustrations which record landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, gardens, and infrastructure, as well as examples of culture and customs from around the world. Since they are a valuable documentary tool for researchers and curators, these illustrations commonly appear in scholarly articles and exhibitions. For the first six months of 2014, an exquisite collection of 204 early modern topography books with Dutch origins underwent conservation here at the Met. These books, originally published in several countries between 1575 and 1825, are now held in the collection of the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints. Femke Speelberg, an assistant curator in the department, served as project leader and selected the titles for conservation.

An initial assessment determined that several treatment techniques would be required. The books come in all shapes and sizes and are bound with various materials such as leather, cloth, or vellum. Twenty-four books needed rebacking, meaning that the boards were detached or the spine lining was loose, therefore compromising the binding structure and making future handling risky. Some volumes had warped vellum and leather-covered boards, which were humidified and flattened to put less strain on the joints. Other common conservation treatments performed over the course of this project included cleaning soiled text blocks, rehousing, and creating new protective enclosures determined by the size and weight of each book. Some highlights of the collection, along with notes on conservation work, are outlined below.

The Historie van den Amsterdamschen Schouwburg (History of the Theater of Amsterdam) includes engravings by artists Simon Fokke and Noach van der Meer the Younger that depict a fire in an Amsterdam theater. The magnificent folio-size prints (at top and above), illustrating the progression of the fire until the theater is reduced to a pile of bricks, are tipped in.

The Amsterdam fire marshals Jan van der Heide and his son, Jan van der Heide the Younger, published Beschryving der Nieuwliks uitgevonden en Geoctrojeerde Slang-Brand-Spuiten (Description of the Newly Invented and Patented Firehose) in 1690. Van der Heide the Elder's compositions are characterized by a great mastery of light and shade and the rendering of minute detail. These skills come to the fore in this collection of engravings that grew out of his work with the city's fire brigade, for which he assumed responsibility in 1673. This vellum-bound book depicts the firefighting methods of the day (to which van der Heide contributed a new invention, a water-pumping mechanism), including instructions for the use of flexible fire hoses.

Before treatment, the text block was lifting away from a case with a leather spine and cloth-covered boards, and the plates were tearing at the hinges. During treatment, the discolored, torn linen hinges were removed by aqueous methods; the plates were then dried and rehinged with Okowara Japanese paper and wheat-starch paste. The case was cleaned, consolidated, and housed separately from the text block so that the plates could be displayed easily, if desired.

Culture and customs are abundantly shown in the 1631 publication A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World . . . Although attributed to John Speed in the title, the maps are anglicized copies of contemporary Amsterdam maps from the designs of Willem Blaeu, Pieter van den Keere, Claes Jansz Visscher, and the Hondius-Jansson family. They are known as cartes figures and include side panels depicting costumed figures, town plans, and views. This genre was popularized by Jodocus Hondius Sr., the earliest examples being from his time in England, and his competitors were quick to adopt the practice. The particular appeal to the publisher, George Humble, was probably the similarity in style between these maps and the county maps in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.

The treatment required repairing heavily soiled and creased pages with numerous losses on the edges. The leaves were humidified in situ, then flattened and dried between blotter sheets to eliminate the creases; when dry, the losses on the edges were filled.

The 204 early modern topography books are now properly housed and ready to be exhibited. Both Museum staff and the public may arrange access to these rare books in the Department of Drawings and Prints Study Room. For those unable to visit the Museum, the collection is available to the public virtually via the Museum's The Collection Online.

The project was funded by a generous grant from the Discretionary Aid Program of the New York State Program for Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, the twentieth year that The Metropolitan Museum of Art was granted money by this program. I look forward to beginning work on the next two proposed projects: French Architectural Books: Renaissance to Art Deco and How Did They Do That? Early Modern Instruction Books from Alphabets to Pyrotechnics.

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In multi-format typesetting, the final page layout of most formats will be automated, and automated systems cannot lay out double-page spreads as beautifully as a human designer making layout decisions.

When you remember a quote you read in a paperback, you remember where it was on the page and in the book. When you find that quote again, your hands know how many pages fell before and after it, and your eyes know to look for it in, say, the top of a right-hand page.

On screen everything is fluid, and separated from us by a cold sheet of glass. We are literally at a greater distance from the shifting text. It is almost impossible to form a mental map of the book. As such, digital books have no topography.

We present a collection that we are sure is much awaited by our reading community. It is about books on topography in PDF format, a selection of invaluable and downloadable material, so that you can carry out your studies on this important discipline.

Our selection of books on topography gathers the best of the digital bibliography, of public domain that you can find on the Internet. The best titles on this subject are in this section.Topography is defined as the science or discipline that is in charge of studying the surface of a terrain and then, with the information collected, to elaborate the corresponding topographic maps.

The origin of topography is not very clear, but many authors place it in the 16th century, with the creation of geographical charts. It is also often associated with the creation of private property. The truth is that great civil works have been built thanks to topography, as is the case of the great roads of the world and hydroelectric dams, which were a breakthrough in power generation. Therefore, topography is related to the progress and growth of cities.In its study three branches or divisions are distinguished, namely:

Geodesy: it is in charge of representing graphically the terrestrial surface, understanding it as a great set of surfaces.Surveying: it is in charge of measuring the distances of the terrestrial surface, that is to say, of measuring the different areas and their delimitation.Classical topography: it is in charge of obtaining the proportions of a physical space, by means of mathematical calculations and using an abstract system of spherical coordinates.If you want to continue deepening in everything related to this subject, we invite you to take a look at these more than 15 books of topography in PDF format that we leave to you in this section to download them immediately.

That divine scripture is sure and worthy of trust, that it reveals things which agree among themselves and with the whole, in both the Old and New Testament, and that it indicates the utility of the shape of the whole universe.

Explaining that many ancient writers, among outsiders, attest the antiquity of the divine scriptures composed by Moses and the prophets and that the Greeks seem to have learned to write later than everyone else, as well as the divine scriptures, because of their inveterate incredulity.]

FIRST of all I exhort those who will read this book to peruse it with allattention and diligence, and not to run over it in a perfunctory manner, butwith loving pains to study it and take into their minds impressions of theplaces, figures, and histories which it contains; and when the book has beenread to the end, let them further look into the volume which we have composedfor that lover of Christ, Constantinus: a volume wherein we have described morefully the whole earth, both the one beyond the ocean, and this one, and all itscountries, together with the southern parts from Alexandria to the SouthernOcean, namely, the river Nile and the countries adjacent, and all the races ofEgypt and Ethiopia; the Arabian Gulf besides, with the countries adjoining andtheir inhabitants as far as the same ocean, and likewise the middle countrybetween the river and the gulf, with the cities, districts and tribes thereincontained----a volume 2 to prove that what things are said by us aretrue, and those false which are said by our adversaries, [114] for whose sakethis book and the drawings 3 it contains have been prepared----those,I mean, concerning the size of the sun, and that sun-burnt, uninhabited part ofthe world about which they din our ears, and vomit out fictions and fables. Letme next exhort my readers to examine the sketch 4 of the universe andthe stellar motions which we have prepared as a representation of 3the organic sphere of the pagans 5, and to study the account of itsent to the pious deacon Homologus, then they with God's help are quitecompetent, especially with this book and the volume mentioned, to overthrow fromthe foundation the error of the pagan 6 theories. For if any Christianpossesses these three works, and is by divine grace carefully exercised in thedivine scriptures, he will easily confute the foolish views of thefable-mongers, for, from the figure itself, the constitution of the world andthe very nature of things, they prove that the divine scriptures and thedoctrines preached by Christians are perfectly true. Be strong then, yeChristians, in the Lord.

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