Atlas Geography

[Hildegard Mccauley]

Anatlas is a book or collection of maps. Many atlases also contain facts and history about certain places. There are many kinds of specialized atlases, such as road atlases and historical atlases. There are also star atlases, which give the location and placement of stars, planets and other celestial objects.

Besides showing maps of all the countries and continents, a world atlas may also provide facts about the countries. Individual maps of major cities or other points of interest may also be included in a world atlas. Population statistics, the location of natural resources, cultural and religious information and political data are frequently found in an atlas.

Although people have been using maps for thousands of years, civilizations really didnt begin producing large atlases until the 1500s. During this time, European and Asian countries were exploring the world through trade and colonization. They depended on atlases to guide them through unfamiliar territory. As European explorers mapped the "New World" (the Americas), they also updated atlases with their discoveries.

In 1595, a collection of maps prepared by the Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator was published with the word "atlas" in the title. Atlas referred to a portrait of King Atlas, a mythical African monarch. King Atlas invented the first celestial globe. A celestial globe is a ball-shaped map of the stars and constellations. Celestial globes were very important in navigation, when sailors used stars to determine their position at sea. Mercator showed King Atlas to demonstrate his importance to navigation. This was the first time the term was applied to a collection of maps. Eventually, "atlas" came to be used for any book of maps.

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Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries was firstpublished in London by the firm of Hodder and Stoughton in 1869. The atlasconsists of twelve maps of European countries, each with a unique nationalstereotype created by the author based on the the outline and shape of thecountry. Each image is accompanied by a short verse describing the authorscreation.

In the introduction to the atlas, the author, William Harvey, writing underthe pseudonym Aleph, described his intention in creating the atlas: It isbelieved that illustrations of Geography may be rendered educational, and proveof service to young Scholars who commonly think Globes and Maps but wearisomeaids to knowledge. If these geographical puzzles excite the mirth of children,the amusement of the moment may lead to the profitable curiosity of youthfulstudents and embue the mind with a healthful taste for foreign lands.

The resulting fanciful caricatures include England in the form of QueenVictoria; Scotland as a gallant Piper struggling through the bogs; Wales in theform of Owen Glendowr; Ireland as a Peasant, happy in her babys smile; Franceas an Empress of cooks, fashions, and the dance; Spain and Portugal joined inlasting amity; Italy as a revolutionary figure complete with liberty cap;Prussia in the personages of Friedrich Wilhelm and Prime Minister Bismarck;Holland and Belgium as female figures who represent a land . . . and perfectart made grand; Denmark as a female figure with ice skates; and Russia as theclassic bear.

The Energy and Industry Geography Lab is a tool for geographical data related to energy, industry and infrastructure. The tool makes it possible to find and filter energy-related data, and create and share maps displaying this data.

Where does the EU consume energy? The Joint Research Centre has produced a high-resolution atlas of energy supply and demand across the EU: a first of its kind, working at a scale not previously thought possible.

This story map gives you a taste of the energy atlas, explain the methodology used and showcases some of the results. All datasets can also be found in the JRC Data Catalogue and are also available on the Energy and Industry Geography Lab.

This application is an interactive digital atlas that enables users to generate geographic maps of cancer rates, risk factors for cancer, screening statistics, and other geographical data related to cancer. The system offers free data download for research purposes.

The Cancer Atlas map is not accessible to users of assistive technologies, however all statistics displayed in the application are available as data tables in an accessible table view. This page can also produce CSV file downloads of any selected data.

If the statistics that you are interested in are not available in this tool, SEER provides cancer statistics in a variety of formats. See Statistical Summaries, Interactive Tools and Publications for more options.

After your student has a concept of the world with blob mapping, you will want to focus on drawing each continent in greater detail. For this, we recommend Draw the World.

To learn how to draw each continent freehand, check out the Chalk Pastels Membership (which includes hundreds of simple art projects to reinforce history, literature, science, and other subjects.) For more resources for world geography, world missions, and world cultures, visit the geography section of our website.

This map of botanical geography, derived from the work of German geographer Alexander von Humboldt and Danish botanist Joakim Frederik Schouw, is from Heinrich Berghaus's three-volume Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1845), the first atlas to portray the physical geography of the world. Consisting of some ninety maps, the atlas is divided into eight sections: meteorology and climatology, hydrology and hydrography, geology, earth magnetism, botanical geography, zoological geography, anthropogeography, and ethnography.

The rise of thematic or special purpose cartography, which focuses on mapping the distribution of single or multiple interrelated phenomena, had its origins in the advances in the natural sciences in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly with the collection of vast amounts of scientific data and the search for innovative techniques of presenting this data graphically. Examples of early physical geography atlases in the Library include Alexander von Humboldt's Atlas gographique et physique du royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (Paris, 1811), which records his observations during a 1799 to 1804 expedition to South and Central America; Heinrich Berghaus's three-volume Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1845 1848), the first atlas to portray the physical geography of the world; Alexander Keith Johnston's Physical Atlas (Edinburgh, 1848), an English adaptation of the Berghaus atlas; and Traugott Broome's Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos [Stuttgart, 1851 1853], which was prepared to accompany Humboldt's five-volume Kosmos, a complete physical geography of the universe.

The focus of thematic atlases expanded to include the broad geographical topics of population, culture, agriculture, land use, and transportation. In the United States, the first atlases focusing exclusively on population were the U.S. Census Office's Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census 1870 (New York, 1874), compiled by Francis A. Walker, and Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States (New York, 1883), compiled by Fletcher W. Hewes and Henry H. Gannett from the 1880 census. Subsequent statistical atlases were published by the U.S. Census Office for the 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses. In recent years, more specialized atlases have appeared including such topics as religion, archaeology, skiing, water management, and ocean resources.

The Map Trek Set includes an atlas of historical maps from Creation to the present and a book of student activities. This is a resource any parent or teacher can easily use while teaching history or geography with brilliant success. Students of every age will benefit from the full-color maps and outlines.

Map Trek includes over 200 full-color maps, divided into four periods of time: Ancient World, Medieval World, New World, and Modern World. There is a comprehensive table of contents to help you find exactly what you need and a detailed glossary of terms.

Atlas of Global Geography is Erwin Raisz's first atlas, loaded with splendid original maps and diagrams of the entire world. Erwin was a pioneer of a cartographic technique which he called Physiographic method for the representation of landforms. It is very unique and innovative cartography technique that he first articulated in an article written in 1931. His characteristic, highly descriptive yet very artistic style is instantly recognizable in his maps.

For each corridor, the atlas presents a series of maps and charts showing land use and transportation network characteristics, system performance and future plans. The breadth of information is useful on a corridor-by-corridor basis as well as for comparisons between corridors. This atlas is useful for identifying strategies and investment priorities, and provides a framework for tracking change over time.

This beautiful paperback atlas by Rand McNally offers 65 physical and political maps of our present world that span every nation and continent. This particular atlas will help students with mapping exercises found in the Companion Guides of The Mystery of History Volumes II, III, and IV.

Contemporary light brown half morocco over embossed cloth-covered boards, brown morocco title label on the upper cover, lettered in gilt, the spine divided into five compartments by wide semi-raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers

Provenance: Theodore Sutton Parvin (1817-1901, Burlington, Iowa, inscription dated 15 August 1838 on additional title)

A fine copy of "one of the first American general atlases to supplement the maps with lengthy geographical descriptions" (Ristow), with detailed maps of the 28 States, and including an excellent early map of the Republic of Texas.

Martin and Martin, in their entry on Bradford's 1835 map of Texas, also note that "Bradford published a completely new atlas in 1838, in a larger format, and the map of Texas it contained was even more clearly patterned on [Stephen Fuller] Austin's [Map of Texas, published in Philadelphia in 1830]." It was one of the first maps of Texas as a Republic to appear in an atlas. The atlas is made up of a general map of North America, two maps of Canada, a folding map of the United States, 28 maps of States, a map of the Republic of Texas, a map of the islands of the Caribbean and five town-plans of eight U.S. cities (Washington, New Orleans, Louisville and Cincinnati on one sheet, and single sheet plans of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore). Unlike many atlases of the period, the present work includes extensive text (170pp. in total). Each engraving is accompanied by explanatory articles on the history, economics and geography of the area, as well as a great deal of contemporary statistical information. The provenance is particularly interesting: Theodore Sutton Parvin was born in Cedarville, Cumberland County, N. J., on January 15, 1817; and died June 28, 1901. "He was graduated at Woodward College, Cincinnati, in 1836; he studied law; was private secretary of the first governor of Iowa Territory, Robert Lucas, in 1838, and was the first librarian of that territory. Later he was librarian and professor in the Iowa State University; was a founder of the Iowa State Historical Society in 1857, and for the years 1863-65 was its corresponding secretary and editor. He was the founder, in 1844, of the Iowa Masonic Library, and through his exertions this library has its present building at Cedar Rapids. From its foundation until his death, fifty-seven years, he was its librarian" (Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, [1905]. vol.X, part II, p.871).

Le Gear L33; cf. Martin & Martin p.125; cf. Phillips Atlases 138; Howes B701; Ristow p.271; Sabin 7261. Item #23932

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