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The Tasman map : A biography of a map : Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch discoveries of Australia
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ISBN: 9780648446651 0648446654 Year: 2019 Publisher: Dural Delivery Centre NSW Rosenberg

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The Tasman Map delves into the story of the first Dutch voyages to Australia, set against the background of the struggle of the newly formed Dutch Republic to gain its independence from the Kingdom of Spain and the struggle of the Dutch East India Company for trade supremacy in the East Indies against its Portuguese, Spanish and English rivals. Over a period of only forty years from 1606 to 1644 and based on sixteen separate discoveries the first map of Australia took shape. The Tasman Map shows a recognisable outline of the north, west and south coasts of Australia that was not to change for another 125 years until the British explorer James Cook charted the east coast in 1770. It was in 1925 and 1933 that the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia, acquired both the Tasman Huydecoper Journal and the Tasman Bonaparte Map. The story of how the library managed to acquire these treasures of Dutch exploration and cartography will bring new recognition to these icons of both Dutch and Australian history.


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Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human : new worlds, maps and monsters
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ISBN: 9781108431828 9781107036673 1108431828 1107036674 1316547442 1316547116 1316547779 1316549429 1316548104 1139568124 131654513X 9781316548103 9781316549421 9781139568128 9781316549094 1316549097 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.

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Cartography --- Geography --- Monsters --- Symbolic aspects of monsters --- Symbolism --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History --- Sociological aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- 912:325 --- 912:930 --- 930.85 "15/17" --- 391/397 --- 391/397 Ethnografie --- Ethnografie --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 930.85 "15/17" Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 912:930 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:930 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:325 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- 912:325 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Western Hemisphere --- Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century --- Cartography - Europe - History - 17th century --- Geography - Sociological aspects --- Monsters - Symbolic aspects --- Western Hemisphere - Maps --- Sociological aspects. --- Hemisphere, Western --- New World --- Earth (Planet)


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Écrire le monde depuis Venise au XVIe siècle : Giovanni Battista Ramusio et les "Navigationi et viaggi"
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ISBN: 9782600062275 9782600162272 9782600362276 2600062270 Year: 2021 Publisher: Genève Droz

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Comment rendre compte, au milieu du XVIe siècle, des voyages exploratoires qui renouvelaient alors la connaissance européenne du monde? Venise pouvait-elle encore concurrencer, en mer ou sur terre, les expéditions ibériques? À ces questions, la somme géographique des Navigationi et viaggi, publiée à Venise en trois volumes entre 1550 et 1559, apporte une réponse originale qui mêle enjeux politiques, commerciaux et épistémologiques. L?auteur de cette compilation, Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557), n?était autre qu?un secrétaire de chancellerie qui œuvra pendant plus d'un demi-siècle au cœur de cet observatoire privilégié qu?étaient alors les institutions de la Sérénissime. Fondé sur un travail inédit conduit dans les archives vénitiennes, cet ouvrage présente un portrait de Ramusio qui met, pour la première fois, en regard sa carrière de secrétaire et son activité de géographe, apportant ainsi un éclairage nouveau sur la dimension politique du savoir géographique dans l'Italie de la Renaissance.

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