[PDF.94zy] Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place and Society)

Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place and Society)

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 | #3398373 in Books |  Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) |  2004-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.52 x.82 x5.88l,.89 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| How Maps made the world a commodity|By P. Nagy|Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 by John Rennie Short (Space, Place, and Society: Syracuse University Press) In his newest work, John Rennie Short continues to explore how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The cosmos was bound|About the Author|John Rennie Short is professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of New Worlds, New Geographies.

The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city. Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the promotion of commercial and national interests. Developments i...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place and Society)   |  John Short. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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