Geography, cartography and nautical science in the Renaissance : the impact of the great discoveries /: the impact of the great discoveries. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Geography, cartography and nautical science in the Renaissance : the impact of the great discoveries /: the impact of the great discoveries. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Geography, cartography and nautical science in the Renaissance : the impact of the great discoveries
- Further Information:
- Note: W.G.L. Randles.
- Authors:
- Randles, W. G. L
- Contents:
- Contents: Preface; Classical models of world geography and their transformation following the discovery of America; The Atlantic in European cartography and culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance; The alleged nautical school founded in the 15th century at Sagres by Prince Henry of Portugal called ’the Navigator’; The emergence of nautical astronomy in Portugal in the 15th century; The recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography in Renaissance Italy and its impact in Spain and Portugal in the period of the Discoveries; From the Mediterranean portulan chart to the marine world chart of the Great Discoveries: the crisis in cartography in the 16th century; Bartolomeu Dias and the discovery of the south-east passage linking the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean; La configuration cartographique du continent africain avant et après le voyage de Bartolomeu Dias: hypothèses et enseignements; The evaluation of Colombus’ ’India’ project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographical science of the period; La cartographie de l’Atlantique à la veille du voyage de Christophe Colomb; Colomb découvreur: perceptions contemporaines de son projet et de sa réalisation; La science universitaire en Europe et les découvertes portugaises: Aristotélisme doctrinaire et expérience des navigateurs; Portuguese and Spanish attempts to measure longitude in the 16th century; Pedro Nunes’ discovery of the Loxodromic Curve (1537): how Portuguese sailors in the early 16th century, navigatingContents: Preface; Classical models of world geography and their transformation following the discovery of America; The Atlantic in European cartography and culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance; The alleged nautical school founded in the 15th century at Sagres by Prince Henry of Portugal called ’the Navigator’; The emergence of nautical astronomy in Portugal in the 15th century; The recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography in Renaissance Italy and its impact in Spain and Portugal in the period of the Discoveries; From the Mediterranean portulan chart to the marine world chart of the Great Discoveries: the crisis in cartography in the 16th century; Bartolomeu Dias and the discovery of the south-east passage linking the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean; La configuration cartographique du continent africain avant et après le voyage de Bartolomeu Dias: hypothèses et enseignements; The evaluation of Colombus’ ’India’ project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographical science of the period; La cartographie de l’Atlantique à la veille du voyage de Christophe Colomb; Colomb découvreur: perceptions contemporaines de son projet et de sa réalisation; La science universitaire en Europe et les découvertes portugaises: Aristotélisme doctrinaire et expérience des navigateurs; Portuguese and Spanish attempts to measure longitude in the 16th century; Pedro Nunes’ discovery of the Loxodromic Curve (1537): how Portuguese sailors in the early 16th century, navigating with globes, had failed to solve the difficulties encountered with the plane chart; Le Nouveau Monde, l’autre monde et la pluralité des mondes; La diffusion dans l’Europe du XVIe siècle des connaissances géographiques dues aux découvertes portugaises; The artilleries and land fortifications of the Portuguese and their adversaries in the early period of the discoveries; ’Peuples sauvages’ et ’états despotiques’: la pertinence, au XVIe siècle, de la grille … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 910.94
Discoveries in geography -- European
Navigation -- History
Cartography -- History
Nautical charts -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000553239
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781000553178
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