Book ID: CBB961468925

La fabrique de l'Océan Indien: Cartes d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquité-XVIe siècle) (2017)

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Vallet, Éric (Editor)
Vagnon, Emmanuelle (Editor)


Publications de la Sorbonne


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 372
Language: French

Richly illustrated, this work invites you on a journey through more than twenty centuries of cartography, where we discover how the Indian Ocean was imagined and represented, in the East and in the West, from the first Babylonian maps to the planispheres of the end of the 16th century. He goes beyond describing the emergence of modern cartography from 16th century European navigations; it also considers the knowledge from the large areas of the Old World, from the Far East to Europe, passing through the worlds of Islam, to meet perspectives and explore common approaches which, beyond geographical and cultural distances, have shaped a progressively unified image of this space. By observing the traces, names and illustrations appearing on numerous documents - world maps, diagrams, regional maps, globes and planispheres - constructed at several scales, the reader is thus invited to browse and discover the multiple representations of a vast maritime space common to several cultures.

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Review Thomas Horst (2019) Review of "La fabrique de l'Océan Indien: Cartes d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquité-XVIe siècle)". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 220-221). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nicolai, Roel
Kahlaoui, Tarek
Arena, Gabriella
Cotesta, Vittorio
Asole, Angela
Pérez, Sandra Sáenz-López
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Nautical charts
Cartography
Geography
Cross-cultural comparison
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Renaissance
Early modern
Modern
16th century
Places
Indian Ocean
Europe
Mediterranean region
Italy
China
Greece
Institutions
Cambridge University
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