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17 Οκτ 2019 · Geography in the early modern period is part of cosmography. Geography is defined as a graphical representation of the whole known world, a description of the Earth. In the context of Renaissance, the knowledge about the Earth spreads essentially through cosmographic...
- Cartography in the Renaissance
This essay draws a cultural history of cartography and...
- Cartography in the Renaissance
18 Μαρ 2019 · This essay draws a cultural history of cartography and cosmography focusing on some of the transformative processes and changing functions that characterized these fields of knowledge, using European sources, over a period of nearly four centuries, from 1250 until...
The rediscovery of Geography by the Greek author Ptolemy, and its translation into Latin in 1409, had a profound influence on the representation of the European continent during the Renaissance. The first map of Europe, published in 1554 by Gerard Mercator, was the origin of a long genealogy of maps using ancient and contemporary sources.
Setting the Stage. 1. Cartography and the Renaissance: Continuity and Change. David Woodward. 2. The Role of Maps in Later Medieval Society: Twelfth to Fourteenth Century. Victoria Morse. The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays. Maps and Renaissance Culture.
14 Ιαν 2010 · Europe in the early sixteenth century was still in many respects medieval. Its population was rural and agricultural to the extent of about 80 percent. Cities remained small; craft industries were small-scale and most were carried on domestically.
28 Απρ 2014 · Over the course of the early modern period, Europeans came to look at, engage with, and even transform nature and the environment in new ways, as they studied natural objects, painted landscapes, drew maps, built canals, cut down forests, and transferred species from one continent to another.
This chapter is organized in four main sections reflecting broad types of maps for which projections were useful in the European Renaissance: world maps (and globes), nautical charts, regional maps, and celestial maps.
