Making Space

Revisioning the World, 1475-1600

By: John Rennie Short

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Hardcover | 31 March 2004

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In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. 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 in navigation, for example, were often encouraged and promoted both by the state and by merchant companies. Surveying was closely connected to the rising cost of land and to the increasing commodification of agriculture. The continuous price rise of land in the sixteenth century was an important factor in the rise of spatial practices of mapping and surveying. In addition, he highlights the role of the occult practices in the new spatial sciences. Astrology and alchemy were as important as astronomy and geometry. The cosmographers of the sixteenth century encompassed a wide arc of intellectual endeavors.

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Non-Fiction Travel Maps & Atlases Travel Maps History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography General & World History Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas

Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Geographical Reference World Atlases & World Maps

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Coordinating the World	p. 9
Encompassing the World	p. 34
Mapping the World	p. 68
Navigating the Seas	p. 109
Surveying the Land	p. 129
Annexing Territories	p. 142
Conclusions	p. 150
A Selection of the Renaissance Translations of Ptolemy's Geography, 1475-1600	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
Selected Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 175
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