The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World MapsExamines the history of world mapmaking through 70 outstanding individual examples, discussing the maps and their makers in relation to their age and placing them within the context of the wider history of ideas. |
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Africa Age of Discovery America appears artistic Asia astronomy Atlantic atlases Beatus map became Cape cartographic central centre chart China Christian circular classical clearly coast concept Contarini contemporary context continents created cultural Desceliers discovery dominant drawn earth east elements empirical Europe European exploration geographical globe graphic Greek hemisphere Hereford map Hereford Mappa Mundi imagery India intellectual interpreted island knowledge known world land land-mass literary longitude manuscript map's mapmakers Marco MARE Martellus Martin Waldseemüller medieval mappae Mercator Mercator chart Mercator projection Mercator's meridian mons motifs navigation Ocean oikoumene oval projection Pacific period plane-chart PLATE political Portuguese printed Ptolemaic map Ptolemaic model Ptolemy Ptolemy's PTOLEMY'S WORLD MAP reality regions religious Renaissance Rosselli satellite scientific sea-charts secular SEPTENTRIO seventeenth century sixteenth century sources South sphere structure symbolic T-O map TERRA texts thematic mapping tradition twin-hemisphere visual voyages Waldseemüller Waldseemüller's world image world map