Download Full eBooks in PDF
Cosmography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Cosmography book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108833233
Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.
Author : Kātib Çelebi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004441330
Cihānnümā is a summa of the Islamic geographical tradition and the first Muslim adaptation of the early modern atlas as the scientific representation of the world. Our translation of Müteferriḳa’s printed edition takes full account of Kātib Çelebi’s original manuscript.
Author : Ishwar Dayal Gaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000991901
This book attempts to study Panjab historiography from the viewpoint of cosmography, the concept derived from the cosmological paradigm which Professor Harjeet Singh Gill, an eminent semiotician, developed in his oeuvre. Since its introduction in the colonial Panjab, the discipline of historiography subdued the indigenous craft of history writing such as katha, qissa, janamsakhi, and jangnama wherein what Professor Gill has conceptualized as “the dialectic of representation and transcendence” remained ever active. This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author : David Barrado Navascués
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031298851
This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
Author : Richard Zouch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591083652
Author : Leo Africanus
Publisher : Random House
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141998824
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa. The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals. Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it. Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff
Author : Richard ZOUCH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020487357
Author : Richard L. Thompson
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120819543
The mysteries of the fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam have long puzzled students of Vedic cosmography and astronomy. Confronted with a description of the universe that seems much at variance with the information provided by our senses and standard astronomical calculations, foreign observers and even Indian commentators from the middle ages up to the present have concluded that the Bhagavatam`s account elaborated in other Puranas must be mythological. On the other hand the same persons have been much impressed with vedic astronomical treatises the jyotisasastras which provide remarkably accurate measurements of the solar system.
Author : Patricia Lynn Bornhofen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89092568609
Author : Ian Archibald Richmond,Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN : IOWA:31858014687135
Author : Peter Heylyn
Publisher : Thoemmes
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : MSU:31293025411004
Peter Heylyn's Cosmographie is the most comprehensive description of the known world written in 17th-century England. Produced in the turmoil of the English Civil War, Cosmographie's significance in English intellectual life far outlasts its origins. Composed by combing relevant texts for information the work is ordered according to a spatial framework of continents and nations. With its seductive prose style and enlivened subject matter, generations of scholars have found in this work an incomparable source of information. A high proportion of scholars and gentlemen in the late 17th and early 18th centuries perused Cosmographie. This popularity continued throughout the 20th century and as an acknowledged classic of geographical writing Cosmographie is an text for modern scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, who seek to understand Stuart England and more generally the intellectual culture of the late Renaissance.
Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192533869
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Author : María M. Portuondo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226055404
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known. As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world.
Author : John Rennie Short
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815630239
The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city. Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the promotion of commercial and national interests. Developments in navigation, for example, were often encouraged and promoted both by the state and by merchant companies. Surveying was closely connected to the rising cost of land and to the increasing commodification of agriculture. The continuous price rise of land in the sixteenth century was an important factor in the rise of spatial practices of mapping and surveying. In addition, he highlights the role of the occult practices in the new spatial sciences. Astrology and alchemy were as important as astronomy and geometry. The cosmographers of the sixteenth century encompassed a wide arc of intellectual endeavors.
Author : Alessandro Scafi,Warburg Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Cosmography
ISBN : 1908590505
The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. The focus has been on the way the relationship between 'the other world' and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe. Scholars coming from different fields discuss in this volume the various ways the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe has been viewed within their own field of work. The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space, relied heavily upon a variety of temporally and culturally conditioned concepts of the physical cosmos as a finite and imperfect realm. It is precisely the emphasis on cosmography that allows the discussion of several traditions: Sumerian, ancient Iranian, Greek, Jewish, early Christian, Gnostic, Byzantine, Islamic, Scandinavian, and Latin Western.