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Author : Arthur Davies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Date of Juan de la Cosa's World Map and It's Implications for Merican Discovery written by Arthur Davies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Emra Nunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Mappemonde of Juan de la Cosa written by George Emra Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Noble Wilford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375708502
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Mapmakers written by John Noble Wilford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, through to the expeditions of Columbus and Magellan, John Noble Wilford chronicles the exploits of the great pioneers of mapmaking. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers—including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West—whose achievements shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity.
Author : Eric Axelson
Publisher : UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dias Voyage, 1487-1488 written by Eric Axelson and published by UC Biblioteca Geral 1. This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan de La Cosa
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book A Facsimile of Juan de la Cosa's Map of the World written by Juan de La Cosa and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351305980
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Terra Cognita written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows that Columbus did not discover America on October 12, 1492. Supplemented by fascinating old maps and a new preface written for this paperback edition, Terra Cognita will be of interest to historians, geographers, cognitive scientists, sociologists, and students of culture.
Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108687245
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Venetian Discovery of America written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Author : David Barrado Navascués
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031298853
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution written by David Barrado Navascués and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The European Discovery of America written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.
Author : Justin Winsor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America: English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689. [c1884 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Winsor
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Robert Enterline
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866609
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus written by James Robert Enterline and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-04-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did medieval Europeans seem to have such specific knowledge about a land they had not yet discovered? The author presents evidence that the Eskimos' provided the basis for medieval maps of the areas of America that no Europeans had reached.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book English Exploration and Settlement in North America, 1497-1689 written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Winsor
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689. [c1884 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Joseph William Thrower
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226799735
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Maps & Civilization written by Norman Joseph William Thrower and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465435611
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Great Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole world is mapped out for your viewing pleasure in this captivating compendium, ranging from past to present through diverse themes of transport and technology to discoveries and development. Covering the classical maps of the ancient world and traveling through time to reach Google Earth in the 21st century, this unprecedented history of more than 60 maps opens up our planet as never before. Great Maps showcases early Medieval maps like including mappae mundi; iconic transport maps such as the London Underground; important travel maps including Dr. Livingstone's version of Africa; maps of natural wonders such as the ocean floor; and momentous moments including the marks on the Moon left by the lunar landings. There are maps that show the way to heaven, depict lands with no sunshine, and the mysterious home of "the people with no bowels" on this mind-blowing journey. Much more than just geographical data, maps are an accurate reflection of the culture and context of different time frames in history. British historian Jerry Brotton tells the amazing secret stories behind many of the most significant maps ever unearthed, revealing key features and innovative techniques in incredible detail. The unique insight into how mapmakers have expressed their world views results in this treasured book that makes a welcome addition to any bookshelf or home library.
Author : Veena
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183564809
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Understanding Earth Science written by Veena and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
