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Author : Rodney W. Shirley
Publisher : London : Holland Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010550559
Author : Henry Wendt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1457848562
This book accompanied an exhibition in 2010 at the Sonoma County Museum in California drawn from the extensive map collections of Henry and Holly Wendt. This rare and stunning selection of world maps, reproduced here in full color, reflects the intelligence and passion of collectors who are intimately involved in all aspects of exhibit development. Through the language of cartography, the exhibition Envisioning the World explores the major trends in intellectual history from the early Renaissance through the scientific era of the Enlightenment. The maps illustrate the way in which Western civilization came to grips with the shape, size, and nature of the Earth as a whole. The maps also portray, often in a visually appealing and artistic manner, the earliest attempts to comprehend the nature of the solar system, the relationship of the planets, and, especially, the essential qualities of the earth.
Author : Rodney W. Shirley
Publisher : Young Writers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000213566
Author : Tony Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013091445
Author : Gregory C. McIntosh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820343594
One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most important ever made. This detailed study offers new commentary and explication of a major milestone in cartography. Correcting earlier work of Paul Kahle and pointing out the traps that have caught subsequent scholars, McIntosh disproves the dubious conclusion that the Reis map embodied Columbus's Third Voyage map of 1498, showing that it draws instead on the Second Voyage of 1493-1496. He also refutes the popular misinterpretation that Reis's depictions of Antarctica are evidence of either ancient civilizations or extraterrestrial visitation. McIntosh brings together all that has been previously known about the map and also assembles for the first time the translations of all inscriptions on the map and analyzes all place-names given for New World and Atlantic islands. His work clarifies long-standing mysteries and opens up new ways of looking at the history of exploration.
Author : Peter Barber,Katherine Barnes,Dr Nigel Erskine,Rupert Gertisen,Dr Jeremy Green,Dr Susannah Helman,David Kaus,Robert J. King,Granville Allen Mawer,Maggie Patton,Erica Persak,Jon Rhodes,Denis Shephard,Dr Peter Sutton,Dr Martin Terry,Justine Van Mourik,Dr Brendan Whyte,Nat Wiliams,Dr Martin Woods
Publisher : National Library of Australia
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780642278098
The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523838
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 : Matthew McLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317037170
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544 it went through thirty-five editions and was published in five languages, making it one of the most important books of the Reformation period. Beginning with a biographical study of Sebastian Münster, his life and the range of his scholarly work, this book then moves on to discuss the genre of cosmography. The bulk of the book, however, deals with the Cosmographia itself, offering a close reading of the 1550 Latin edition (the last and definitive edition worked upon by Münster). By analysing the contents of the Cosmographia it attempts to recreate how the world of the sixteenth century appeared to a scholar living in Basel, and understand what he saw and heard. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked aspects of the intellectual and religious culture of the time.
Author : Kathleen A. Brosnan,James R. Akerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226696577
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
Author : Maryanne Cline Horowitz,Louise Arizzoli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438033
An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Author : Michael Blanding
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698156982
The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.
Author : Denis Cosgrove
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1861890214
This book explores what mapping meant in the psat and how its meanings have altered. The authors investigate mappings of terrestrial space on a large scale; mapping and localism; personal mappings on and of the human body; cosmographic or imaginary mappings beyond the scale of direct earthly experience.
Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781846145704
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.
Author : Jeffrey N. Peters
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0874138477
Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.
Author : Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421438528
Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
