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The rediscovery of Ptolemy's ""Geography"" has long been hailed as a key moment in the emergence of Renaissance culture, symbolizing a new rational spatiality, and preparing the way for the Age of Discovery. And yet, the process of the ""Geography's"" introduction, integration and impact in Western Europe, as the essays in this volume collectively suggest, was more complex and less predictable than has been traditionally assumed. Whereas previously Ptolemy's maps attracted most scholarly attention, in this volume the textual tradition of ""the Geography"" - Ptolemy's text, added prefaces, annotations and treatises - stand at the centre. Bringing together a wealth of previously unexplored sources and contexts, the essays examine ""the Geography"" as it took part in and influenced diverse areas of Renaissance culture, such as visual theory and communication, humanistic philological, historical and antiquarian practices, astrology, education and religion. The emerging ""Geography"" is perhaps less revolutionary but more satisfyingly embedded into the culture that produced and used it. This volume points to new directions for the study of the remaining questions that still hover around Ptolemy's seminal work and for the study of early modern geography as a whole.

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Author:   Zur Shalev ,  Charles Burnett
Publisher:   University of London
Imprint:   University of London Press
Volume:   17
ISBN:  

9780854811526

ISBN 10:   0854811524
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   01 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Zur Shalev Main Themes in the Study of Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance; Alexander Jones Ptolemy's Geography: A Reform that Failed; Dario Tessicini Definitions of Cosmography and Geography in the Wake of Ptolemy's Geography; Angelo Cattaneo Map Projections and Perspective in the Renaissance; Mario Carpo The Early Modern Renaissance of Digital Images: Alberti, Ptolemy, and a Map of Rome; Benjamin Weiss The Geography in Print: 1475-1530; George Tolias Ptolemy's Geography and Early Modern Antiquarian Practices; Alfred Hiatt Mutation and Supplement: The 1513 Strasbourg Ptolemy; Margaret Small Warring Traditions: Ptolemy and Strabo in the Geography of Sebastian Munster; Alessandro Scafi After Ptolemy: The Mapping of Eden; Lesley Cormack Ptolemy at work: The Role of the Geography in Geography and Mathematics Teaching in Early Modern England; Appendix Jacopo Angeli's introduction to his translation into Latin of the Geography, translated by Charles Burnett.; Index.

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