Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

by Patrick Murray

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object, whether for enjoyment or political campaigning, colonial invasion or teaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032060255
• ISBN13: 9781032060255
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"