Martin Waldseemüller S Carta Marina Of 1516

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030227036

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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3030227057

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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 101327508X

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Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta Marina' of 1516 by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can't be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller's radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : John W. Hessler,Chet A. Van Duzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 192915447X

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Seeing the World Anew by John W. Hessler,Chet A. Van Duzer Pdf

Author : Seymour I. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070744647

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Putting "America" on the Map by Seymour I. Schwartz Pdf

In 1507 the Waldseemuller World Map was created. It was the first time a map included the continental landmasses in the Western Hemisphere. The name "America" was inserted on the southern continent. Since then it has been surrounded by many intrigues.

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0764903640

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The Image of the World by Peter Whitfield Pdf

Examines the history of world mapmaking through 70 outstanding individual examples, discussing the maps and their makers in relation to their age and placing them within the context of the wider history of ideas.

Author : Chet Van Duzer,Ilya Dines
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004307278

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Apocalyptic Cartography by Chet Van Duzer,Ilya Dines Pdf

In Apocalyptic Cartography, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse an unstudied fifteenth-century German manuscript that contains a rich collection of strikingly original world maps. These include early thematic maps and maps illustrating the events of the Apocalypse.

Author : Martin Waldseemüller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131721941

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The Naming of America by Martin Waldseemüller Pdf

This new book features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemuller - the first map ever to display the name America - and tells the fascinating story behind its creation in 16th-century France and rediscovery 300 years later in the library of Wolfegg Castle, Germany, in 1901. It also includes a completely new translation and commentary to Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann's seminal cartographic text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, which originally accompanied the World Map. John Hessler considers answers to some of the key questions raised by the map's representation of the New World, including "How was it possible for a small group of cartographers to have produced a view of the world so radical for its time and so close to the one we recognize today?"; and "What evidence did they possess to show the existence of the Pacific Ocean when neither Vasco Nunez de Balboa nor Ferdinand Magellan had yet reached it'." There are no easy answers, and yet, as this fascinating book reveals, this group of unknowns created some of the most important maps in the history of cartography, and afford us a glimpse into an age when accepted scientific and geographic principles fell away, spawning the birth of modernity.

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0712358900

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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.

Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226925189

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Sea Monsters by Joseph Nigg Pdf

The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired

Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000950339H

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The Geography and Map Division by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division Pdf

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523838

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Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.

Author : Jeffrey Jaynes
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cartografía
ISBN : 3447107154

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Christianity Beyond Christendom by Jeffrey Jaynes Pdf

In 1507 Martin Waldseemuller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious symbols. The cartographer depicted the papal keys, which according to the map's companion text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, enclosed almost the whole of Europe for the Western Church. However, beyond the boundaries of Europe's Christendom, the map pictured Nestorian churches in China and the legendary Christian ruler Prester John in India. His subsequent Carta marina (1516) amplified the descriptions of these religious traditions. Waldseemuller's maps, like almost every other world map of the era, featured legends of Christian communities positioned outside of Christendom. Christianity Beyond Christendom explores this religious tension -- the diversities of globally scattered Christian traditions and the more rigid notion of a homogenous Christendom -- as a component of cartographical developments from the eighth to the sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers used the mappaemundi and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly based Christian oikoumene, even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover, cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends, furthering these with new myths, to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and isolated Christian communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The book considers a vast array of medieval world maps and later atlases, ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia and Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions.

Author : Christopher Rossi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132577

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Remoteness Reconsidered by Christopher Rossi Pdf

When the margin IS the center, perspectives shift

Author : Emiro Martínez-Osorio,Mercedes Blanco
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546335

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The War Trumpet by Emiro Martínez-Osorio,Mercedes Blanco Pdf

The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed their literary journeys. The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana, Os Lusíadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia, and Felicissima Victoria, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.