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Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place, and Society) - Hardcover

Short, John R.

 
9780815630234: Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place, and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0815630239 ISBN 13: 9780815630234
Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city. Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the promotion of commercial and national interests. Developments in navigation, for example, were often encouraged and promoted both by the state and by merchant companies. Surveying was closely connected to the rising cost of land and to the increasing commodification of agriculture. The continuous price rise of land in the sixteenth century was an important factor in the rise of spatial practices of mapping and surveying. In addition, he highlights the role of the occult practices in the new spatial sciences. Astrology and alchemy were as important as astronomy and geometry. The cosmographers of the sixteenth century encompassed a wide arc of intellectual endeavors.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Rennie Short is professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of New Worlds, New Geographies.

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Verlag
Syracuse University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0815630239
ISBN 13 
9780815630234
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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