Book ID: CBB301391846

The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe (2015)

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Ayesha Ramachandran (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 299 pages
Language: English

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality?   The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

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Authors & Contributors
Gerhardt, Regine
DeShong, Rachel
van Putten, Jasper Cornelis
Leitão, Henrique
Franssen, Mathieu
Šolar, Renata
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Geography
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
15th century
Places
Europe
Germany
England
Paris (France)
Strait of Magellan
Saxony
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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