Analysis of Ken Jenning´s Maphead: Charting the Wide Weird World of Geography

In chapter 4, Jennings discussed dreams that map enthusiasts were a parliamentary geography and library department's library. Access is located in the department of the US Congress Library, Texas Map, Death Red Sox fans scored tickets for Fenway Park home plate seats. This is a dream. The Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 1.553 billion items in approximately 838 miles of bookshelf. The collection contains over 35 million copies of books and other printed materials, 4 million albums, 13.6 million photos, 4 million maps 5 million and 68 million songs.

The library has the largest maps and map books in the world including many African countries of interest. From the ancient hand-drawn chart, to the latest satellite survey, the geography and map department provides various information such as political, geographical disparity, environmental conditions and ethnographic data, in Africa 150 thousand I have the above maps and map books. For example, the series includes the 1477 Bologna version of Claudius Ptolemy's geography, based on A. D. 150 known in 1477 and Arab and European writer Ptolemy's writings

In particular, the development of the world's 3 15th century map affects the content of the Bodoland chart. At first it translated geography of Ptolemy in Latin. The second is the geographical philosophical theory of growth of interest, calculating the geographical coordinates of the use in building the map. The third is eventually a series of sailing along the coast of Africa, to the New World and the Old World Herald even more adventurous, leading to Good Hope's Bartolomeo Diaz Cape in 1488. In the beginning of the 14th century, Pietro Besconte used Bodoland in the plan to construct a world map. In the 15th century, this cross between two such maps will become more common but still occasional, not occasionally