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Author | : Rodney W. Shirley |
Publisher | : Brill |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
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Title pages and frontispieces have been recognized as a fascinating decorative genre in their own right. Rodney Shirley illustrates 100 of the most important decorative titlepages and frontispieces, dating from the 15th to the late 19th centuries.
Author | : Rodney W. Shirley |
Publisher | : Brill |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
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Title pages and frontispieces have been recognized as a fascinating decorative genre in their own right. Rodney Shirley illustrates 100 of the most important decorative titlepages and frontispieces, dating from the 15th to the late 19th centuries.
Author | : Gerhard Holzer |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-02-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1443875708 |
Download A World of Innovation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594) was the most important cartographer and globemaker of the 16th century. He is particularly remembered for his publication Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595), and for his specific cylindrical map projection (1569), which is still used widely today. This book brings together the latest research on Mercator with a view to his sources and his relationships with other scientific disciplines and cartographers of his time, as well as his role in the wider worlds of Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
Author | : Maryanne Cline Horowitz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438033 |
Download Bodies and Maps Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Author | : Nick Kanas |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461409179 |
Download Star Maps Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.
Author | : Chet Van Duzer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004523839 |
Download Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.
Author | : Michael Wintle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000171612 |
Download Eurocentrism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book raises awareness of Eurocentrism’s enormous impact and shows how, over the course of five centuries, Eurocentrism has extended its power across the globe. In the twenty-first century, Eurocentrism’s hegemony remains powerful. By exploring a wide range of sources including Eurocentric maps and images, historiography, and Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden, Wintle uncovers Eurocentrism’s gradual evolution and reveals the ways in which it functions at both seen and unseen levels. Taking a thematic and then empirical approach, Eurocentrism offers a detailed and comprehensive discussion of Eurocentrism’s problems and dangers, pays special attention to the work of Samir Amin and James Blaut and applies notions garnered in the book to discuss Eurocentrism within the context of the twenty-first-century European Union. This study questions Eurocentrism’s function, its history, and its importance, providing a fresh insight into one of the world’s most complex and powerful cultural phenomena. With its multi- and interdisciplinary analysis, this book is an indispensable tool for both scholars and students concerned with modern history, politics, visual culture and political geography.
Author | : Sumathi Ramaswamy |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 022647657X |
Download Terrestrial Lessons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Prologue: Global itineraries, Earth inscriptions -- In pursuit of a global thing -- "As you live in the world, you ought to know something of the world"--The global pandit -- Down to Earth? Of girls and globes -- "It's called a globe. It is the Earth. Our Earth!" -- Epilogue: The conquest of the world as globe
Author | : Sarah Hatchuel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107109736 |
Download Shakespeare on Screen: Othello Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004414711 |
Download Contesting Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collective volume examines the prevalence and variability of early modern discourses on Europe; it considers both Latin and vernacular texts from various fields of study in order to shed new light on how the concept of Europe evolved in its early days.