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Book Koeman s Atlantes Neerlandici

Download or read book Koeman s Atlantes Neerlandici written by Cornelis Koeman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Koeman s Atlantes Neerlandici  The folio atlases published by Willem Jansz  Blaeu and Joan Blaeu

Download or read book Koeman s Atlantes Neerlandici The folio atlases published by Willem Jansz Blaeu and Joan Blaeu written by Cornelis Koeman and published by Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blaeu atlases.

Book Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica

Download or read book Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica written by Günter Schilder and published by Monumenta Cartographica Neerla. This book was released on 2013 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9th volume in the series of 'Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica' includes a separate extensive thematic index on the complete series. For more information, please ask for our special brochure on this publication. We have a limited stock of earlier published volumes available. This volume focuses exclusively on the work of Hessel Gerritsz (c. 1581-1632), who ranks among the most important and influential cartographers of the early-seventeenthcentury Amsterdam. He started his career in Willem Jansz. Blaeu's workshop. About 1608 he established himself as an independent engraver, mapmaker and printer. A selection of his maps has been described and reproduced in full size and his position as chart-maker of the Dutch East and West India Company is discussed in detail. This is the last and final volume in the series 'Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica'.

Book Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas

Download or read book Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas written by M. P. R. van den Broecke and published by Brill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and others.

Book Joan Blaeu and His Grand Atlas

Download or read book Joan Blaeu and His Grand Atlas written by Cornelis Koeman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New History of Ethiopia

Download or read book A New History of Ethiopia written by Hiob Ludolf and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Degrees of Latitude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Beck Pritchard
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 2002-10-08
  • ISBN : 9780810935396
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Degrees of Latitude written by Margaret Beck Pritchard and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for their rarity, historical importance, and beauty, the maps of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in the collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation provide an invaluable resource for the history of settlement in America. In the colonies, maps were essential in facilitating trade and travel, substantiating land claims, and settling boundary disputes. Today, knowing exactly what maps were owned and used during the period gives us a much richer understanding of the aspirations of early Americans.This large, handsome volume -- a carefully researched cultural investigation -- examines how maps were made and marketed, why people here and abroad purchased them, what they reveal about the emerging American nation, and why they were so significant to the individuals who owned them. Among the rare or unique examples included here are several maps that have never before been published. A must for map collectors and historians, this book will also be treasured by the millions who travel each year to Colonial Williamsburg to celebrate their American heritage.

Book Willem Jansz  Blaeu

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Keuning
  • Publisher : Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Willem Jansz Blaeu written by J. Keuning and published by Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This book was released on 1973 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collections of Maps and Atlases in the Netherlands

Download or read book Collections of Maps and Atlases in the Netherlands written by Ir C. Koeman and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1961 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manhattan in Maps 1527 2014

Download or read book Manhattan in Maps 1527 2014 written by Paul E. Cohen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume features 65 full-color maps charting Manhattan's development from the first Dutch settlement to the present. Each map is placed in context by an accompanying essay.

Book The Mapping of Africa

Download or read book The Mapping of Africa written by Richard L. Betz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. Volume 7 in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies.

Book The Brokered World

Download or read book The Brokered World written by Simon Schaffer and published by Science History Publications/USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays focusing on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of the ever more densely entangled systems of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres -- economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest. This conjuncture also saw the overhaul of networks and institutions of natural knowledge, whether commercial, voluntary or organs of state. Both the industrial and the second scientific revolutions have been dated to this moment. New and decisive relations were forged between different cultures' knowledge carriers. The authors consider knowledge movements of the epoch that escape simple models of metropolitan centre and remote colonial periphery. They question the immutable character of mediators and agents in knowledge communication.

Book Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands During the Early Modern Period

Download or read book Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands During the Early Modern Period written by Lissa Roberts and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Netherlands housed a number of widely-known, envied, and emulated centers of accumulation during the early-modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles of accumulation and exchange. Its institutions of learning and culture similarly served as internationally famous centers of accumulation that furthered knowledge and cultural production, embodied in the form of books, maps, prints, exhibits, and the like. This collection of essays brings together the Dutch histories of manufacture, commerce, and global exchange along with the histories of knowledge and cultural circulation during the 17th and 18th centuries by anatomizing the multi-faceted concept of accumulation. The book explores the processes that led to the formation of concentrated, often hybrid, sites of material, intellectual, and cultural accumulation in the Netherlands and its overseas stations, as well as the concerns and consequences to which the successes and challenges of accumulation gave rise. It will be of interest to historians of science, technology, culture, and economics. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 2)

Book Atlas Maior of 1665

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  • Author : Joan Blaeu
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-07-04
  • ISBN : 9783836538039
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Atlas Maior of 1665 written by Joan Blaeu and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library's complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering...

Book The Nine Lives of John Ogilby

Download or read book The Nine Lives of John Ogilby written by Alan Ereira and published by Duckworth. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings that placed roads on maps for the first time. During the intervening years, Ogilby had travelled through fire and plague, war and shipwreck; had been an impresario in Dublin, a poet in London, a soldier and sea captain, as well as a secret agent, publisher and scientific geographer. The world of his youth had been blown up and turned upside down. Beset by danger, he carefully concealed his biography in codes and cyphers, which meant that the truth about his life has remained unknown... until today. In this enlightening book, Alan Ereira brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve a conspiracy of kings and England’s undoing. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covert journey which gave birth to the modern world.

Book Inventing Exoticism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Schmidt
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2015-01-21
  • ISBN : 0812290348
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Inventing Exoticism written by Benjamin Schmidt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.

Book The Fan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Octave Uzanne
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781016962131
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Fan written by Octave Uzanne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.