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The rare and small handatlases
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ISBN: 9783930401369 3930401355 Year: 2008 Volume: 2 Publisher: Schwerte Pangaea Verlag

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Maps of the Witham Fens : from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 9780901503831 Year: 2008 Publisher: Woodbridge Lincoln Boydell Press Lincoln Record Society


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The german discovery of the world : renaissance encounters with the strange and marvelous
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ISBN: 9780813927121 Year: 2008 Publisher: Charlottesville London University of Virginia

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In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments.


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The cartographic imagination in early modern England : re-writing the world in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell.
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ISBN: 9780754656203 9781315614335 9781317039327 9781317039334 9781138259393 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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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

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