Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."—from the Preface

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space—to see our planet as it...