This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
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表中的内容
Translator’s Preface.
Introduction: Renaissance and Cosmography.
1. The Cosmographical Model.
2. Ancient Lessons: A Bookish Orient.
3. Mythologics: The Invention of Brazil.
4. Mythologics II: Amazons and Monarchs.
5. Cartographics: An Experience of the World and an Experiment on the World.
Epilogue: The End of Cosmography.
Appendices.
Notes.
Index.
关于作者
Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and on the age of discovery. His previous books include André Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780745683683 ● 文件大小 4.0 MB ● 出版者 John Wiley & Sons ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2014 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2972228 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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