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Author : David W. Waters
Publisher : UC Biblioteca Geral 1
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard W. Unger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230282162
Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.
Author : Meg Roland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000415797
In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.
Author : Margaret E. Schotte
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421429533
Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.
Author : Manuela D’Amore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319552910
This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of philosophy and travel, the book provides evidence of how the Society helped raise the Fellows’ curiosity about the Mediterranean and encouraged travel to the region by promoting cultural events there and establishing fruitful relations with major Italian academic institutions. They were especially devoted to revealing the natural and artistic riches of the Bourbon Kingdom from 1738 to 1780, during which the Roman city of Herculaneum was discovered and Vesuvius and Etna were actively eruptive. Through these examples, the book draws attention to the role that the Royal Society played in establishing cultural networks in Italy and beyond. Tracing a complex path starting in Restoration times, this new insight into discourse on learned travel contributes to a more challenging vision of Anglo-Italian relations in the Enlightenment.
Author : Roberto A. Valdeón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269409
Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015081548185
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UVA:X001813816
Author : John Neu
Publisher : Science History Publications/USA
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Reference
ISBN : UVA:X004270701
Author : John Rennie Short
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : David B. Quinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000963809
First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of cartography and the Vinland Map controversy), Professor Quinn presents circumstantial indications pointing to 1481 as the date or the discovery of America by Bristol voyagers – fishermen seeking new sources of cod, and merchant sailors with maps carrying promise of unexploited Atlantic islands. Whereas England did little to follow up her early lead, Quinn demonstrates that English initiatives from the 1580s onward, though slow, were of great importance. He brings to life the men involved in a variety of rash and heroic experiments in colonization and casts new light on their fates. He makes it clear that it was this very profusion of trial and error and trail again, as well as the conviction that settlement in temperate latitudes in North America could be effective if tenaciously enough sought, that enabled the English to strike and maintain routes in their new American world. This book will be of interest to students of English history, American history, colonial history and naval history.
Author : Jack Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857298621
The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde’s life, throwing new light on a character deserving of greater recognition. Topics and features: presents a concise chronology of Recorde’s life; examines his published works; describes Recorde’s professional activities in the minting of money and the mining of silver, as well as his dispute with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; investigates Recorde’s work as a physician, his linguistic and antiquarian interests, and his religious beliefs; discusses the influence of Recorde’s publisher, Reyner Wolfe, in his life; reviews his legacy to 17th-Century science, and to modern computer science and mathematics.
Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092530880
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521523532
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : Charles Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092459272
