Here is the English translation of the provided content: A New World Series: The Story of the World Maps (4) Note: The "" (newline character) is left as is, as per your instructions. All other Chinese text has been translated into English.

Author: Xu Hanqing
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Publish Date: 2005-08-24
Features: The book comes with four world maps! A new century, a new perspective, a new world! From four perspectives—east, west, south, and north—and in two directions—longitude and latitude—it accurately presents the world geography and the geographical relationship between China and the world to the readers. Many people first learn about the world through world maps. By telling the stories of a series of world maps, this book showcases the exploration fever of human understanding of the Earth, narrates the wonderful transformation methods and scientific concepts from the macro Earth to the micro map, records the winding development history of world maps from ancient times to the modern era, and thus reveals the historical inevitability that world maps originated from imagination, developed through exploration, and were elevated through innovation. Reading this fresh and inspiring popular science book, facing the ever-blessed Earth of humanity, you will open your curious eyes to discover; you will open your minds of knowledge to explore. The world will become more wonderful because of your participation, and the world map will become more beautiful because of your attention.