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Mathematical geography

Here are entered works on the branch of physical geography that deals with attributes of the Earth, such as its size, shape, and movements, and with those relations to heavenly bodies which affect the features of the Earth. Works on the use of mathematics in geography are entered under Geography -- Mathematics.

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• Geography

• Geodesy
• Geographical positions
• Astronomical geography

• Cartography
• Map projection
• Surveys

• Geography, Mathematical

• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)

• Mapping for a Sustainable World (New York: United Nations, 2020), by M. J. Kraak, Robert E. Roth, Britta Ricker, Ayako Kagawa, and Guillame Le Sourd (PDF with commentary at un.org)
• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)

• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (digital edition; Richmond: Digital Scholarship Lap, University of Richmond, c2013), by Charles Oscar Paullin, ed. by John Kirtland Wright and Robert K. Nelson (Javascript-dependent HTML and images at richmond.edu)
• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (some pages damaged; Washington and New York: Pub. Jointly by Carnegie institution of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York, 1932), by Charles Oscar Paullin, ed. by John Kirtland Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Head Is A Map: Essays and Memoirs in Honour of R. V. Tooley (c1973), ed. by Helen Wallis and Sarah Tyacke (Epub at kunstpedia.com)

• Cenni Storici sui Lavori Geodetici e Topografici e Sulle Principali Produzioni Cartografiche Eseguite in Italia dalla Metà del Secolo XVIII ai Nostri Giorni (in Italian; Florence: Coi tipi dell' Istituto Geografico Militare, 1903), by Attilio Mori
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org; images stripped out
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids, and Grid Reference Systems, by United States Defense Mapping Agency (illustrated HTML at nga.mil)

• Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids, and Grid Reference Systems, by United States Defense Mapping Agency (illustrated HTML at nga.mil)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections (6 volumes; New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), by I. N. Phelps Stokes, contrib. by F. C. Wieder and Victor Hugo Paltsits
  • Volume I: page images at Columbia
  • Volume II: page images at Columbia
  • Volume III: page images at Columbia
  • Volume IV: page images at Columbia
  • Volume V: page images at Columbia
  • Volume VI: page images at Columbia

• From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1993), by Adrian George Traas (PDF at US Army CMH)

• Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association (two series, 2005-) (full serial archives)

• Maps Are Territories, Science is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits (online edition; originally published 1989), by David Turnbull, contrib. by Helen Watson and Yolngu Community at Yirrkala (illustrated HTML at indigenousknowledge.org)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Public Mapping Project: How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2018), by Michael McDonald and Micah Altman (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Promoting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Through Partnerships, by National Research Council Mapping Science Committee (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Traité des Projections des Cartes Géographiques;: Représentation Plane de la Sphère et du Sphéroide (in French; Paris: A. Bertrand, ca. 1866), by Adrien Adolphe Charles Germain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Conducting Research Surveys via E-Mail and the Web (2002), by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, and Marc N. Elliott (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw and Bonnie Nichols (PDF at nea.gov)

• Procedures for Quantitative Ecological Assessments in Intertidal Environments (1978), by J. J. Gonor and P. F. Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Environmental Influences Affecting Blondes in Rhodesia and Their Bearing on the Future: A Survey of the Situation From the Medical and Scientific Standpoints (Harare: Rhodesia Independent Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1922), by W. M. Hewetson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Environmental Influences Affecting Blondes in Rhodesia and Their Bearing on the Future: A Survey of the Situation From the Medical and Scientific Standpoints (Harare: Rhodesia Independent Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1922), by W. M. Hewetson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Survey of Vegetation in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #45; 1960), by Angus M. Woodbury, Stephen David Durrant, and Seville Flowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Decennial Census: Local Government Uses of Housing Data (Briefing report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Census and Population, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, 1987), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Industrial Policy and Semiconductors: Missing the Target (Washington: AEI Press, 1995), by Andrew Ronald Dick (PDF at AEI)
• Flat Panel Displays in Perspective (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Soil Survey, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Arizona: A Special Report (1972), by United States. Soil Conservation Service, United States National Park Service, and University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station (PDF at National Park Service)

• The Structure of Withdrawal: Relationships Among Estrangement, Tardiness, Absenteeism, and Turnover (Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980), by Nina Gupta and G. Douglas Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Survey of Public Health Activities in Honolulu, Hawaii, Including Official and Voluntary Agencies, Under the Auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu; and A Brief survey of the Major Health Problems of the Territory, Made With the Aid of the Kauai, Maui, and Hilo Chambers of Commerce (1935), by Ira V. Hiscock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Report of a Survey of the University of South Carolina Library for the University of South Carolina, February-May 1946 (typescript; Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1946), by Louis Round Wilson and Maurice F. Tauber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conducting Research Surveys via E-Mail and the Web (2002), by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, and Marc N. Elliott (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2007), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Andy Havens, Janet Hawk, and Lillie Jenkins (PDF files with commentary at oclc.org)
• Halifax County: Economic and Social (1920), by Sidney B. Allen and R. Stanford Travis (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• An Economic and Social Survey of Russell County (with a history of Russell County by Trigg; Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1931), by Leland B. Tate, contrib. by Daniel Trigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carteret County, Economic and Social (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926), by Aleeze Lefferts, Henry Champlin Lay, and Clifford Whitefield Lewis (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
• The California Guide Book: Comprising Colonel Fremont's Geographical Account of Upper California; Major Emory's Overland Journey From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila Rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and to Oregon and North California; Accompanied with a Map of Various Routes, and a Map of the Gold Regions (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia (4 volumes (5th volume either never published or very rare)), by Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakunlunski, Adolf von Schlagintweit, and Robert von Schlagintweit (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• A Survey of London: Reprinted From the Text of 1603 (2 volumes; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), by John Stow, ed. by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at British History Online

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia (4 volumes (5th volume either never published or very rare)), by Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakunlunski, Adolf von Schlagintweit, and Robert von Schlagintweit (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)

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