Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas - Hardcover

Binding, Paul

 
9780747230403: Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747230404 ISBN 13: 9780747230403
Verlag: Headline Review, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts, the chance to see out planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. The world's first-ever atlas was the brain-child of Abraham Ortelius; it reflected the great vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery and the linked activities of commerce and map-making. It was a work born of collaborative friendships: Ortelius' circle included two key figures of the age - printer Christophe Plantin and geographer Gerard Mercator. and brings vividly to life the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his momentous work.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet and cultural historian. He studied English Literature at Oxford University and is Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He reviews regularly, especially for the Independent on Sunday and Times Literary Supplement.

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Verlag
Headline Review
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747230404
ISBN 13 
9780747230403
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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