William Eisler

The Furthest Shore

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beautifully illustrated with Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English images, this book is an exciting visual account of the construction of Terra Australia in the European imagination and as scientific fact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780521392686
• ISBN-10: 0521392683
• Artikelnr.: 22456618

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. The Invention of a Southern Continent: 1. Terra Australis in antiquity and the Middle Ages; 2. Terra Australis in the early Renaissance; 3. Java la Grande and Magellanica; 4. Spanish vision of the Austral world: Medaña, Quirós, Torres; 5. Exotica in sixteenth century Spain; 6. Art, science and exploration in Elizabethan England; Part II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion (1606
1756): 7. The Dutch image of the Southland; 8. Dutch Australian expeditions: 1606
36; 9. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland (1636
45); 10. Art and the Dutch trading companies; 11. The Great Southland and the republic of letters: Nicolaas Witsen (1641
1717) and his Kunstkammer; 12. Epilogue; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.