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Tréhin, an autistic man with exceptional creative talents and an obsession with large cities, conceived and developed Urville, the capital of a large island province, over 20 years. He shares his vision in this beautifully illustrated guide to the city, which he renders convincingly real in nearly 300 drawings of different districts of Urville.

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History of France --- History of Latin America --- Thevet, André --- anno 1500-1599 --- Brazil --- Aardrijkskundige mythen --- Cities [Imaginary ] --- Fictious places --- Folk-lore of countries --- Geografische mythen --- Geographical myths --- Imaginary cities --- Islands [Imaginary ] --- Mythes geographiques --- Mythical places --- Places [Imaginary ] --- Cosmography --- Geography --- Cosmographie --- Géographie --- History --- Early works to 1800 --- Histoire --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Thevet, André, --- Géographie --- Thevet, André, --- 16th century --- Récits de voyages de la Renaissance --- Travelers' writings --- Voyage --- Travel in literature. --- Mythes géographiques. --- Geographical myths. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism --- Dans la littérature. --- Récits de voyages de la Renaissance --- Mythes géographiques. --- Cosmologie --- Autrui --- Anthropologie --- Renaissance --- Thevet, André

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During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences-particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology-from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.

Imaginary places --- Cosmography --- Ethnology --- Philosophy and science --- Wonder (Philosophy) --- History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Early works to 1800 --- History and criticism --- History --- Science and philosophy --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Lieux imaginaires --- Cosmographie --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Cosmology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Science --- Philosophy --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Philosophie et sciences --- Etonnement (Philosophie) --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- Ciencia --- Filosofía --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century --- Filosofía y ciencias --- Ciencias y filosofía --- Sistemas, Teoría de los --- Mecanicismo (Filosofía) --- Semántica (Filosofía) --- Positivismo --- Conocimiento, Teoría del

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Maps have the power to transport us, filled as they are with wonder and possibility. Here, internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights, encompassing not only the maps that appear in their books, but also the maps that have inspired them and the sketches they create in writing. Philip Pullman recounts a map he drew for an early novel; Robert Macfarlane reflects on his cartophilia, set off by 'Treasure Island'; Daniel Reeve describes working on 'The Hobbit' films; Miraphora Mina recalls creating 'The Marauder's Map' for 'Harry Potter'; David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of 'Cloud Atlas'. And there's much more besides. Amidst a cornucopia of beautiful images, including unpublished sketches by authors, there are maps of the world as envisaged in medieval times, maps from classics of literature and cherished stories, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, from Atlantis to Westeros, Narnia and Utopia, from Mercator to Tolkien.

Imaginary places --- cartografie --- imaginaire cartografie --- kunst en literatuur --- geografie --- aardrijkskunde --- 766.022 --- literatuur --- grafische vormgeving --- grafisch design --- grafisch ontwerp --- informatiedesign --- information design --- 7.047 --- 912.43 --- Thema's in de kunst ; cartografie ; imaginaire geografische kaarten --- Thema's in de grafische vormgeving ; cartografie ; kaarten en mappen --- Literatuur en imaginaire geografische kaarten --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Iconografie ; landschappen, zeegezichten, panorama's, land-art --- Geografie ; kartografische beelden, kaarten --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Fiction --- atlases --- fantasies [literary genre] --- cartographers --- fantasies [literary works]

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In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious symbols. The cartographer depicted the papal keys, which according to the map's companion text, the "Cosmographiae Introductio", "enclosed almost the whole of Europe for the Western Church." However, beyond the boundaries of Europe's Christendom, the map pictured Nestorian churches in China and the legendary Christian ruler Prester John in India. His subsequent "Carta marina" (1516) amplified the descriptions of these religious traditions. Waldseemüller's maps, like almost every other world map of the era, featured legends of Christian communities positioned outside of the Christendom. This book explores this religious tension - the diversities of "globally" scattered Christian traditions and the more rigid notion of a homogenous Christendom - as a component of cartographical developments from the eight to the sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers used the "mappaemundi" and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly based Christian oikoumene, even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover, cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends, furthering these with new myths, to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and isolated Christian communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The book considers a vast array of medieval world maps and later atlases, ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia and Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions.

cartography [discipline] --- Geodesy. Cartography --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Christianity and geography --- Ecclesiastical geography --- Cartography --- Imaginary places --- 27 <5> --- 281.81*1 --- 281.81*1 Nestoriaanse Kerk --- Nestoriaanse Kerk --- 27 <5> Histoire de l'Eglise--Azië --- 27 <5> Kerkgeschiedenis--Azië --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Azië --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Azië --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Maps --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Ecclesiastical divisions --- Geography, Ecclesiastical --- Church history --- Religion and geography --- Geography and Christianity --- Geography --- Religious aspects --- History --- 912:27 --- 912:27 Kaarten. Atlassen: kerkgeschiedenis --- 912:27 Maps. Atlasses: history of the church --- Kaarten. Atlassen: kerkgeschiedenis --- Maps. Atlasses: history of the church --- World maps --- Christian religion --- World maps - History --- Cartography - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century --- Ecclesiastical geography - Maps --- World maps - Early works to 1800