Beschreibung:
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
Translator's Preface.Introduction: Renaissance and Cosmography.1. The Cosmographical Model.2. Ancient Lessons: A Bookish Orient.3. Mythologics: The Invention of Brazil.4. Mythologics II: Amazons and Monarchs.5. Cartographics: An Experience of the World and an Experimenton the World.Epilogue: The End of Cosmography.Appendices.Notes.Index.