Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.
Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.
Patrick J. Murray, PhD, is a researcher specialising in early modern literature. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary interfaces of cartography, literary representation and cultural fashioning in the period 1550-1750.
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Introduction: Weaving the Net Chapter 1: 'they say the world's in one of them': The World of the Map Chapter 2: 'Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize': Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland Chapter 4: 'There is none so good lernynge': Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar's Cartographies Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
Introduction: Weaving the Net Chapter 1: 'they say the world's in one of them': The World of the Map Chapter 2: 'Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize': Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland Chapter 4: 'There is none so good lernynge': Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar's Cartographies Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
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