As well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments from the Phoebus Foundation's world-famous collection. The objects tell of the glory days of the history of cartography, but also of darker matters, from the struggle against flooding and the Eighty Years' War to colonial expansion and the Belgian struggle for independence. Well-known mapmakers such as Gerard Mercator, Abraham Ortelius and Joan Blaeu are featured in addition to numerous anonymous surveyors and cartographers.
Groundbreakers invites us to discover and question the history of cartography in the Netherlands, in order to explore and expand the horizons of our own world.
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Remarkable maps and atlases reveal the rich history of cartography in the Low Countries
By:
Anne-Rieke van Schaik
Imprint: Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers
Country of Publication: Belgium
Dimensions:
Height: 290mm,
Width: 250mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 1.926kg
ISBN: 9789464941043
ISBN 10: 9464941049
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
FOREWORD INTRODUCTION THE ART OF SURVEYING FROM LOCAL TO NATIONAL THE MANY FACES OF A CITY ANTWERP AND THE URBAN CULTURE OF THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS NEWS IN ABUNDANCE NAVIGATING THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRESH OFF THE PRESS CARTOGRAPHIC UPDATES FOR THE BATTLE ON THE SCHELDT 1630s UNITY AND DIVISION THE LEO BELGICUS IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS THROUGH OTHERS’ EYES ITALIANS IN THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS FROM COURSE TO MAP PILOT GUIDES AND SEA CHARTS ON BOARD AND ASHORE TERRA INCOGNITA? NEW OCEANS, NEW WORLDS WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE MAPS OF THE ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN WORLD BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST WORLD ATLASES AND THE CREATION OF THE ATLAS MAIOR MOVING HEAVEN AND EARTH SCIENCE, INSTRUMENTS AND THE COSMOS INDEX OF NAMES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR COLOPHON
