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Book Typus Orbis Terrarum   On the Elliptical Projection

Download or read book Typus Orbis Terrarum On the Elliptical Projection written by and published by . This book was released on 1589 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Typus Orbis Terrarum

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  • Author : Abraham Ortelius
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1570
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Typus Orbis Terrarum written by Abraham Ortelius and published by . This book was released on 1570 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Typus orbis terrarum

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  • Author : Abraham ORTELIUS
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1598
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Typus orbis terrarum written by Abraham ORTELIUS and published by . This book was released on 1598 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Display label text from 'Lie of the Land: the Secret Life of Maps', British Library, 2001-2002: "Map of Japan by Ortelius, 1595 and four variant forms The regions furthest away from Europe posed the greatest problems for Western mapmakers and Japan was given more different outlines than anywhere else. The standard atlas of the late 16th century, Abraham Ortelius's, included four different versions in its earlier editions. Finally, in 1595, the atlas added the first widely disseminated sheet entirely devoted to Japan, drawn by Luis Teixeira, a Portuguese Jesuit. However, from then onwards, the atlas confusingly continued to include all five conflicting outlines of Japan. Today's maps are supposed to provide certainty; in the 16th century the user had to choose. Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1598. Maps C.2.d.7."

Book Ortelius Atlas Maps

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  • Author : M. P. R. van den Broecke
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789061943808
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ortelius Atlas Maps written by M. P. R. van den Broecke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.

Book Typus Orbis Terrarum

Download or read book Typus Orbis Terrarum written by and published by . This book was released on 1587 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Historical Prints

Download or read book American Historical Prints written by Daniel Carl Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deceit

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  • Author : Yuri Felsen
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 2023-02-07
  • ISBN : 1662601972
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Deceit written by Yuri Felsen and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is . . . real literature, pure and honest.” —Vladimir Nabokov "The scintillating English-language debut from Felsen . . . [is] a fittingly volatile record of ruinous desire. —Publishers Weekly Once considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Europe in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary that is an as-yet-undiscovered landmark of Russian émigré literature. We meet our unnamed narrator in Paris in the 20s, where he finds himself an expat after the Russian Revolution. At a friend’s request he meets the beautiful, clever socialite Lyolya, also a recent exile from Russia. What begins as casual friendship quickly turns into fascination and obsession, as Lyolya gives mixed signals and pursues other men. Our narrator, emerging from a depression, is soon overwhelmed by the very idea of her, which begins to contour all of his observations, thoughts, and feelings. While Lyolya continues to live a life unencumbered by the forces of social convention, and history, our narrator’s revelations, written in diary form, grow increasingly painful, familiar, and rich with psychological introspection. Quite unlike any other writer in the Russian canon, Felsen evokes in poetic and idiosyncratic prose not only the Zeitgeist of interwar Europe and his émigré milieu, but also the existential crisis of the age.

Book Theatrum orbis terrarum

Download or read book Theatrum orbis terrarum written by and published by . This book was released on 1579 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Crusades

Download or read book The History of the Crusades written by Joseph Fr. Michaud and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures from the Map Room

Download or read book Treasures from the Map Room written by Debbie Hall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China - the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography - and an early world map from the medieval Islamic Book of Curiosities, together with more recent examples of fictional places drawn in the twentieth century, such as C.S. Lewis's own map of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien's map of Middle Earth.As well as the works of famous mapmakers Mercator, Ortelius, Blaeu, Saxton and Speed, the book also includes lesser known but historically significant works: early maps of the Moon, of the transit of Venus, hand-drawn estate plans and early European maps of the New World. There are also some surprising examples: escape maps printed on silk and carried by pilots in the Second World War in case of capture on enemy territory; the first geological survey of the British Isles showing what lies beneath our feet; a sixteenth-century woven tapestry map of Worcestershire; a map plotting outbreaks of cholera and a jigsaw map of India from the 1850s. Behind each of these lies a story, of intrepid surveyors, ambitious navigators, chance finds or military victories. Drawing on the unique collection in the Bodleian Library, these stunning maps range from single cities to the solar system, span the thirteenth to the twenty-first century and cover most of the world.

Book The History of Abraham Ortelius and His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Download or read book The History of Abraham Ortelius and His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum written by Cornelis Koeman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Venetian Discovery of America

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.

Book Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus

Download or read book Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus written by and published by . This book was released on 16?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature  Mapping  and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain

Download or read book Literature Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain written by Andrew Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britian argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.

Book European Perceptions of Terra Australis

Download or read book European Perceptions of Terra Australis written by Dr Alfred Hiatt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.

Book The Earth s Annular System

Download or read book The Earth s Annular System written by Isaac Newton Vail and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: