Atlas of Israel: A Collection of Maps of the Land of Israel and the State of Israel
HEאטלס ישראל: מכלול מפות של ארץ-ישראל ומדינת ישראל
Israel · 1956
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Atlas of Israel
D. H. K. Amiran; N. Kadmon · 1959
The Atlas of Israel, edited by D. H. K. Amiran and N. Kadmon of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is a national atlas published in installments since 1956. This article outlines the unique challenges and solutions involved in its compilation. Firstly, Israel's small area (about 20,700 sq. km.) necessitated much larger map scales than those used in most national atlases, typically ranging from 1:750,000 to 1:2,000,000. Secondly, given the country's rapid and profound geographical changes since the late 19th century, the editors adopted 'time-sequence mapping' as a guiding principle, depicting various themes such as population, agriculture, industry, and landscape at different historical dates to dynamically portray national development. The compilation also grappled with difficulties arising from frequent political boundary changes leading to inconsistent source data, the country's location astride the desert-sown climatic boundary, and extreme topographic contrasts (from nearly 400 meters below sea level at the Dead Sea to 1600 meters above in the mountains). The article concludes by outlining the atlas's fifteen sections, covering topics from geomorphology, geology, and climate to history, population, agriculture, industry, and services, and describes its loose-leaf publication format.
Regional atlases: a summary survey
Ena L. Yonge · 1962
This article provides a systematic summary review of approximately one hundred regional atlases from around the world, organized primarily by continent (or other large region) and then alphabetically by country within each group. The author begins by noting that the ever-increasing flood of atlases—national, regional, topical, and special—makes individual reviews impossible, thus necessitating summary evaluations to acknowledge important publications while respecting space constraints. The review covers representative works from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, North America, and South America, encompassing road atlases, historical-geographical atlases, national atlases, climatic atlases, economic atlases, and school atlases. Each atlas is assessed in terms of its compiling institution, editors, scales, number of plates, content structure, cartographic techniques, printing quality, and scholarly value, with notable features and shortcomings highlighted. For instance, the European section evaluates works such as the Euroatlas, Atlas östliches Mitteleuropa, Atlas von Niederösterreich, Atlas de Belgique, Climatic Atlas of Czechoslovakia, Atlas of Denmark, and Atlas of Finland, while the American section covers state atlases from Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia, as well as national atlases from Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The article emphasizes that these atlases not only reflect the research standards of geography and cartography in their respective countries but also serve as vital references for regional planning, economic development, historical research, and education. The author concludes by acknowledging that no single individual can possess sufficient expertise across all aspects of geography, cartography, and linguistics to render definitive critical judgments, yet such summaries offer valuable guidance to scholars, with a forthcoming review of world atlases and special atlases announced.
Reviews: Atlas of Israel
W. P. G. Thomson · 1958
This review examines the initial fascicules of the Atlas of Israel, published in 1956 by the Department of Surveys, Ministry of Labour, and the Bialik Institute of the Jewish Agency. The atlas employs a loose-leaf format designed to accommodate rapid geographical changes, covering cartography, physical geography, history, demography, economics, and education. Each map sheet includes an academic essay and multilingual bibliography on its reverse. The reviewer notes that while the Hebrew-only publication limits accessibility for non-Hebrew-speaking European scholars, its production quality and scholarly scope make it invaluable for geographers studying Palestine.
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