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Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats.
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The book is a mixture of maps and gigapixel photography. The maps include large orthographic maps of each continent (showing political and physical features), maps of the oceans, (including shipwreck locations) and poles, as well as very detailed regional maps. The book also includes a double-page 6 feet x 9 feet layout of the world's flags.
The Atlas covers the history of more than 3,000 counties and county equivalents in the United States from the early 1600s to 2000. [1] [2] It is available in print form or as downloadable files in shapefile, Keyhole Markup Language, and PDF formats, which are compatible with geographic information systems including Google Earth and ArcGIS.
The DK Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published in 1999 by Dorling Kindersley. A second edition, titled the DK World History Atlas , was published in 2005. Both were produced under the general editorship of Jeremy Black , with the slogan "Mapping the human journey".
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The size of the volume is 33 x 48 cm. A 45-page gazetteer is also included in the atlas volume. The atlas is accompanied by a map-by-map directory on CD-ROM, in PDF format, including a search index. The map-by-map directory is also available in print as a two-volume, 1,500 page edition.
The Atlas of Creation (or, in Turkish, Yaratılış Atlası) is a series of creationist books written by Adnan Oktar under the pen name Harun Yahya.Oktar published volume 1 of The Atlas of Creation with Global Publishing, Istanbul, Turkey in October 2006, [1] volumes 2 and 3 followed in 2007, and volume 4 in 2012.