Knowing and decorating the world: illustrations and textual descriptions in the maps of the fourth edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1613)
This article analyses the Mercator-Hondius Atlas maps in the context of constructing knowledge of the world. In what follows, we analyse the elements of continental geographies and ocean spaces on the maps presented in the atlas. We take as our starting point the tension between empirical and theore...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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[2016]
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Approaching religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
/ Earth
/ Illustration
/ Description
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| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Books - History
B Geography B Cartography B Maps B Gerhard B Mercator B 1512-1594 B Illustration of books B Atlases |
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