Cultural Geography, History of Cartography
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Catálogo de la exposición presentada en el Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. 7 de diciembre de 2018 al 24 de febrero de 2019.
La evolución en los últimos años de los conceptos de cultura y patrimonio ha proporcionado "nuevos objetos", quizás -por el momento-más complejos, por ser holísticos y transversales respecto a campos disciplinares antes cerrados en sí... more
Nota della curatrice » 11 Arte militare CORRADO PETROCELLI Racconti di guerra. Figure della narrazione nelle Storie di Tucidide » 15 IMMACOLATA ERAMO Disegni di guerra. La tradizione dei diagrammi tattici greci nell'Arte della guerra di... more
The aim of this article is to examine the relationship of the two Portuguese cartographers, Pedro Reinel and his son Jorge, with Fernand de Magellan, as well as the implications that their cartographic production had in the preparation... more
“Feng shui: Members of diverse cultures now and in the past often seem to share a similar intuitive association of their personal well-being and avoidance of misfortune with their being "in the right place at the right time." Chinese... more
Bio-bibliographical account of the life and career of the geographer and historian of cartography Helen Wallis Map Librarian of the British Library
This is a very short history of cartography. Notes and links to images are included at the end.
Questo breve accenno storiografico si propone di chiarire una confusio- ne ovvero un errore storiografico perpetrato da vari studiosi, fra i più noti lo storico della cartografia di origine russa Leo Bagrow (Bagrow, 1975, pp. 31-34),... more
REPORT ON A GLOBE BY CORNELIS DE JODE, ANTWERP 1594 – The study was carried out as a report for the authorization to the export of a rare Dutch globe, made in Antwerp by Cornelis de Jode in 1594. The study was developed according to the... more
This article revolves around a map titled Resistenze locali al Decreto Salvini [Local resistance to the Sal-vini decree], which was created with OpenStreetMap by geographer Cristina Del Biaggio on the 5th of January 2019. The map aimed to... more
Rome is certainly one of the most represented cities in the world, and from its images emerges a city that does not correspond in any way to the real one, except the monuments. Its significance of civil or religious supremacy is always so... more
My talk concentrates on the contribution the drawing of charts and other maritime depictions makes to our understanding of what English contemporaries thought was happening geographically and how they saw the world. I say English... more
Las producciones artísticas desafían nuestro sentido común sobre el movimiento y la inmovilidad, el adentro y el afuera y, en general, las formas de pensar las experiencias cuerpo-espacio. En el film Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) y en... more
Analiza niemal całego polskiego dorobku w zakresie atlasów historycznych w pełni potwierdziła zamieszczone na początku artykułu stwierdzenie, podkreślające zależność między zakresem podejmowanej na mapach tematyki historycznej a... more
The author analize the crucial passage from the cartography made on behalf of the King and as a privilege of the court to mapmaking as a tool of the administration of the modern state. The author study and discussa the creation of... more
This is a dated (1986) survey on the study of ancient maps in Italy with proposal for a different approach. Up to then history of cartography was a pertinence of geography and a geographer's affair. The approach was t study old maps as a... more
a collection of advertisements for maps placed in the London Gazette, 1668-1719, with biographical notes on the map-sellers
Albrecht Pencks wissenschaftliche Karriere wurde wesentlich von der akademischen Institutionalisierung der Geographie im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts begünstigt. Während sich die „Physische Geographie“ und die... more
A centralização do Estado nacional brasileiro no século XIX foi feita por meio de uma construção historiográfica da qual tambémk fazia parte a narração de seus limites. Nesse sentido desenvoveu-se uma narrativa territorial que inscreveu o... more
Resulta indiscutible la influencia, e incluso en numerosas ocasiones el determinismo, que ejercen los factores geográficos sobre casi todos los aspectos de la vida humana, por ejemplo la forma en que se organiza cada sociedad en un... more
Adopting a cultural approach to cartographic repertoires, this carto-essay highlights the immense visual heritage of the Venetian Lagoon in order to extrapolate a series of 'mappy' images that have given shape to the cartographic figure... more
Stepan M. Shamin “EUROPA REGINA” AND “THE EUROPEAN COUNTRY KINGS”: A MAP OF THE TIMES OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I IN THE MOSCOW STATE AT THE TURN OF THE 15th AND 16th CENTURIES The study is dedicated to a short text “The European Country... more