Author: Raleigh Ashlin SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Author: Raleigh Ashlin SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Author: R. A. SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758134172
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Author: The American Revolution, 1775-1783; an Atlas of 18th Century Maps and Charts; Theatres of Operations
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Author: Raleigh Ashlin SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ships on Maps
Author: Richard W. UngerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230282164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.
English Navigational Books, Charts and Globes Printed Down to 1600
Author: David W. WatersPublisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Historian's Guide to Early British Maps
Author: Helen WallisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521551526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.
William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape
Author: Andrew MacnairPublisher: Windgather Press
ISBN: 1905119852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.
The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England
Author: D.K. SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317039335
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.