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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765534103321

Autore

Besse Jean-Marc

Titolo

Les grandeurs de la Terre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lyon : , : ENS Éditions, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

979-1-03-620465-4

9791036204654

9782847880304

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations (chiefly black and white), maps, photographs, facsimiles ; ; digital file (PDF)

Collana

Sociétés, Espaces, Temps,

Soggetti

Cosmography

Geography

Social Sciences

Humanities

Cartography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The present essay focuses on three major moments of geographical thought in the Renaissance: the re-appropriation of Ptolemaic cartographic methods, the development of descriptive cosmography by Sebastian Münster, and the geographical meditation of Abraham Ortelius .