Format:
vi, 244 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781032060255
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9781032060262
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge
Content:
Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbuss arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 224-241
,
Introduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: they say the worlds in one of them: The World of the Map / Chapter 2: Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize: Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spensers A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: There is none so good lernynge: Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollars Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781003200376
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Murray, Patrick J. Intellectual and imaginative cartographies in Early Modern England London : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781003200376
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
England
;
Historische Kartografie
;
Fantasiekarte
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
