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Exploring the World through Cartography
Copy machines are modern inventions, but cartography—the practice of drawing maps—is an ancient skill. This handy guide includes drawing lessons, blank maps, political maps, physical features, and historical maps for each region of the world, as well as engaging stories about the way the world’s geography has affected its history. You and your student will love reading together and exclaiming over the wonders of Creation
208 pages, Hardcover
Published June 28, 2017
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September 7, 2017
Sparks will fly as your child’s imagination is ignited with a visual array of stunning maps and artwork. Inside, you will survey ancient, political, and physical maps circling the globe and even reaching out into space. What better way to encompass a truly global perspective of God’s handiwork?
This is not your ordinary Atlas, it takes you on a virtual tour of the world. The pages are packed with stunning artwork, historical photos, and scientific connections to events, people and places in time. The integrations of geography into other subjects are endless. This resource references Latin, math, literature, science, and history, to name a few. Such information will build for your child a more coherent picture of world geography and how it relates to history. Students will embark upon the whole scope of history authored by astronomers to mathematicians to cartographers. They will hear the process of cartography from clay tablets, to wall paintings, to papyrus. They can even navigate the world via the compass & sextant, to Gutenberg’s printing press, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to GPS. Don’t miss out on this epic adventure to Explore the World through Cartography with your family!
This is not your ordinary Atlas, it takes you on a virtual tour of the world. The pages are packed with stunning artwork, historical photos, and scientific connections to events, people and places in time. The integrations of geography into other subjects are endless. This resource references Latin, math, literature, science, and history, to name a few. Such information will build for your child a more coherent picture of world geography and how it relates to history. Students will embark upon the whole scope of history authored by astronomers to mathematicians to cartographers. They will hear the process of cartography from clay tablets, to wall paintings, to papyrus. They can even navigate the world via the compass & sextant, to Gutenberg’s printing press, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to GPS. Don’t miss out on this epic adventure to Explore the World through Cartography with your family!
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