Format:
288 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9780226598871
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9780226288796
Note:
Introduction : worldmaking and the project of modernity -- Mapping the body, mapping the world : Mercator's Atlas -- On cosmographic autobiography : Montaigne's Essais -- Cosmic politics : the worldly epics of Camões and Spenser -- Cartesian romance : universal origins and Le monde -- "This pendant world" : creating Miltonic modernity -- Epilogue : from cosmography to cosmopolitanism
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-28882-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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General works
Keywords:
Welt
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Kartografie
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Kosmografie
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Geografie
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Philosophie
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Geschichte 1600-1800
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Mercator, Gerhard 1512-1594
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de 1533-1592
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Camões, Luiz de 1524-1580
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Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599
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Descartes, René 1596-1650
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Milton, John 1608-1674
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