Mapping Jordan through two millennia /

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Main Author: Bartlett, John R. (Author)

Corporate Author: Palestine Exploration Fund.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leeds, UK : Maney, 2008.

Series: Palestine Exploration Fund annual ; 10.
PEFA ; 10.

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Call Number: DS111 .A1 P28 v.10

Table of Contents:
  • Western knowledge of the Transjordan region in the first millennium AD
  • Medieval scholars, travellers and mapmakers
  • The first printed maps
  • Jacob Ziegler : Quae intus continentur and Terrae sanctae
  • descriptio
  • The sixteenth-century cartographers
  • Seventeenth-century publications
  • John Speed and Thomas Fuller
  • Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travellers in Transjordan and their maps
  • Nineteenth-century exploration and mapping of Transjordan
  • The triangulation of Transjordan
  • The modern identification of ancient sites.