Book ID: CBB000102183

Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination (2001)

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Cosgrove, Denis E. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xiii + 331 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Examines the implications of conceiving of the earth as a globe and traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted with the changing images of the earth from antiquity to the Space Age.


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Review McCourt, James (2005) Review of "Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography. unapi

Review Cormack, Lesley B. (2005) Review of "Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 97). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sykes, James
Allen, Deborah J.
Brotton, Jerry
Christoph, Andreas
Colombo, Lino
Cormack, Lesley B.
Journals
Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Publishers
Rutgers University
Reaktion Books
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Geography
Globes
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Globes, celestial
People
Coronelli, Marco Vincenzo
Bertuch, Friedrich Justin
Betts, John
Brunacci, Francesco
Franklin, Benjamin
Kogutowicz, Emanuel
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
16th century
15th century
20th century
Places
Germany
London (England)
Rome (Italy)
Venice (Italy)
Europe
Hungary
Institutions
Royal Geographical Society
United Nations
Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde (Leipzig)
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