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Africa
African Renaissance
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus
Beatus Maps
Borgian Map
Burgo De Osma
Cantino Planisphere
Carta Marina
Catalan Atlas
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Continent
Cosmographic
cosmographic discourse
Enrique III
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European cartographic science
European exploration history
European intellectual Renaissance
Fra Mauro's Map
Fra Mauro’s Map
Great Fish River
Hereford Map
Hereford Mappamundi
Italian Cartographers
Juan De La Cosa
Liber Monstrorum
medieval cosmography
Medieval Mappaemundi
Monstrous Races
myth and reality in African cartography
Pedro Reinel
portolan chart analysis
Portolan Charts
Prester John legend
Renaissance geography
River Rising
symbolic mapping
Tabulae Novae
Twin Lakes
Venetian Cartographer
Vice Versa
Willem Janszoon
Product details
- ISBN 9781138721357
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously acquired cosmographical elements. Among the themes investigated are: How did the image of Africa evolve from the conception of a symbolic space to a Euclidean representation? How did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast? And once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absence of first-hand knowledge? Also, overall, in this whole process what was the interplay of myth and reality?
Francesc Relano
