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Darrera modificació: 2010-12-02
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Unger, Richard W., Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe, Basingstoke - Nova York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xxiii + 233 pp. + [8] pp. de làm.
- Resum
- Ships on maps in the sixteenth century were signs of European conquest of the seas. Cartographers commemorated the new found dominion over the oceans by putting the most technically advanced ships of the day all over oceans, estuaries, rivers, and lakes on all kinds of maps. Ships virtually never appeared on maps before 1375. The dramatic change from medieval practice had roots in practical problems but also in exploration and new geographical knowledge. Map makers produced beautiful works of art and decorated them with the accomplishments which set Europeans apart from their classical past and from all the other peoples of the world. Ships on Maps investigates how, long admired but little understood, the many ships big and small that came to decorate maps in the age when sailors began to sail around the world were an integral part of the information summarizing a new age.
Contents:
* Glossary of Shipbuilding Terms
* Introduction: Maps and Mapping
* Making Maps without Ships, with Ships
* Mapping before the Renaissance
* Portolans and the Late Medieval Transition
* The Classical Revival, Printing and Maps
* New Routes and Portuguese Map Makers
* Iberian Influence in Southern Europe
* Northern Europe and Southern Practices
* Ships, Geography, and Humanism
* Epilogue
- Matèries
- Geografia i viatges
Tècniques - Nàutica
Il·lustracions
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=364155
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