Shaping of Africa

Shaping of Africa

Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Relano, Francesc

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2020

282

Mole

Inglês

9781138721340

15 a 20 dias

520

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Contents: Introduction; The African Puzzle: Canon and variations on the medieval ecumene; Marvels at the southern edge of the world; Prester John: the migration of a legend; The Limits of Symbolic Space: From Allegorical Geometry to a Figurative World: Displaying Ham's territory; The impact of portolan charts; From the mirror of the ocean; Charting Euclidean Space: the Cartography of the Great Discoveries: Beyond the Pillars of Hercules; From mare clausum to mare liberum; Towards the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; From the Form to the Contents: the Design of the Unknown: Ptolemy shifted, and yet the same; The Mountains of the Moon; The Great Central Lake; Conclusions: the Projection of the Renaissance Tradition; Bibliography; Index.
Africa;Continent;Cosmographic;cosmographic discourse;European intellectual Renaissance;European cartographic science;Cantino Planisphere;African Renaissance;Hereford Mappamundi;Willem Janszoon;Burgo De Osma;Italian Cartographers;Juan De La Cosa;Liber Monstrorum;Bartholomaeus Anglicus;Vice Versa;Portolan Charts;Monstrous Races;Medieval Mappaemundi;Pedro Reinel;River Rising;Great Fish River;Venetian Cartographer;Twin Lakes;Hereford Map;Beatus Maps;Fra Mauro's Map;Catalan Atlas;Borgian Map;Carta Marina;Tabulae Novae;Enrique III