Download or read book Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age written by Elizabeth A. Sutton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda. Building her exploration around the central figure of Claes Jansz Vischer, an Amsterdam-based publisher closely tied to the Dutch West India Company, Sutton shows how printed maps of Dutch Atlantic territories helped rationalize the Dutch Republic’s global expansion. Maps of land reclamation projects in the Netherlands, as well as the Dutch territories of New Netherland (now New York) and New Holland (Dutch Brazil), reveal how print media were used both to increase investment and to project a common narrative of national unity. Maps of this era showed those boundaries, commodities, and topographical details that publishers and the Dutch West India Company merchants and governing Dutch elite deemed significant to their agenda. In the process, Sutton argues, they perpetuated and promoted modern state capitalism.

Download or read book Regnum Chinae The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 written by Marco Caboara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.

Download or read book Fishes Crayfishes and Crabs Commentary and English text written by Theodore W. Pietsch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1719 and exceptional in its day for its 460 brilliantly colored copper engravings, Louis Renard's treatise on the marine life of the East Indies was dismissed in the 19th and 20th centuries because of its apparent embellishment, exaggeration, and even falsification. Ichthyologist Theodore W. Pietsch here reexamines this classic work and its almost surrealistic renderings and discovers a work of considerable scientific and historical interest. In addition to its importance as one of the rarest natural history books known -- and one of the very few pre-Linnaean works on marine organisms to be published in color -- Renard's book provides a description of the marine fauna of the East Indies that can be interpreted in light of modern scholarship.In Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs, Pietsch places Renard's original book fully in its historical and scientific context. He supplies a facsimile of the original text, a full translation with extensive historical notes, and 100 extraordinary color plates with their legends translated and annotated. Pietsch also includes an examination of Renard's life and how he came to write his remarkable book along with a detailed taxonomic chart that identifies most of Renard's illustrated specimens.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miscellanea cartographica written by Cornelis Koeman and published by Hes Studies in the History of. This book was released on 1988 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost fifty years, Professor Koeman has dedicated himself to the study of historical cartography. This text contains the most important studies by Koeman, republished on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Also included is a previously unpublished article, Koeman's reassessment of his earlier works, and numerous illustrations.

Download or read book Guide to the History of Cartography written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and published by Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of the Netherlands Institute for Art History written by Netherlands. Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book List of Accessions to the Library written by Science Museum (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library written by Public Archives of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture written by R. Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.

Download or read book Collecting Old Maps written by Francis J. Manasek and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated second edition of Collecting Old Maps is completely revised and expanded with over 400 color illustrations. While maintaining the original approach to the nuts and bolts of map collecting, there is new information on collecting in the digital age, building and disposing of a collection, papermaking history, and the mythological figures, symbols and allegory used in cartography. The most significant change to this new edition is the Map Gallery, which is more comprehensive and profusely illustrated in full color. Nearly 200 maps were assembled to illustrate the five-century evolution of printed maps and how they changed both artistically and technically in response to various cultural and market influences. They illustrate the progression from the simple woodcuts of the incunabula period to the elegant copperplate engravings of Renaissance Italy, then to the Baroque Dutch compositions, the refined style of scientific cartographers, and finally the technically advanced, but sometimes whimsical, approach of 20th-century mapmakers. These maps represent a broad range of geographic regions, cartographic importance, and prices. Rather than focusing on the rare and obscure, these are maps that can be collected today.

Download or read book De Ludo Globi written by Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atlantes Neerlandici written by Cornelis Koeman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: