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Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe (Early Modern History : Society and Culture)

By Richard W. Unger

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230231640, 9780230231641
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27655859 bytes)
Series
Early Modern History : Society and Culture
Pages
266\266
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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