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Author : Robert Clancy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mapping of Terra Australis written by Robert Clancy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
Author : Peter Barber
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278091
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Author : Alfred Hiatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317139445
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book European Perceptions of Terra Australis written by Alfred Hiatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Download or read book Mapping Our World written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1876485922
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Terra Australis written by Matthew Flinders and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australisis a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines, of the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This is Flinders' story in his own words, neglected until now, but destined to be eagerly read by all.
Author : Libby McMahon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648675709
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exploring the South Land written by Libby McMahon and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the South Land is a celebration of the mapmaker's art - commencing with the 1606 voyage of Captain Willem Janszoon, the first European to chart part of the unknown southern continent. This book documents, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from the time that navigators began probing south in search of Terra Australis Incognita until the modern outlines of Australia and Tasmania were determined.
Author : Sylvia A. Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689818130
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mapping the World written by Sylvia A. Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of mapmaking showing how maps both reflect and change people's view of the world.
Author : Robert Clancy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400743211
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mapping Antarctica written by Robert Clancy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story – one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642551856
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Great Southern Land written by Michael Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642276353
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australia in Maps written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of 17th century to familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps. Discover the stories behind these maps, the technological changes in map making and changes in human knowledge and representation of the world.
