The worldmakers : global imagining in early modern Europe / Ayesha Ramachandran.
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TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: 288 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226288796 (cloth : alk. paper); 022628879X (cloth : alk. paper); 022628882X; 9780226288826Subject(s): Geographical perception | Human geography | Historical geography | Cosmography | Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History | Europe -- History | Europe -- Civilization -- 16th century | Europe -- Civilization -- 17th century | Civilization | Cosmography | Geographical perception | Historical geography | Human geography | Philosophy and science | Europe | Historisk geografi | Kosmografi | Filosofi och naturvetenskap -- historia | Kulturhistoria | Welt | Weltbild | Kartografie | Kosmografie | Philosophie | Literatur | Kunst | Geografischer Raum | Anthropogeografie | 1500-1699 | 1500-talet | 1600-taletGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 910/.01 LOC classification: G71.5 | .R35 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : worldmaking and the project of modernity -- Mapping the body, mapping the world : Mercator's Atlas -- On cosmographic autobiography : Montaigne's Essais -- Cosmic politics : the worldly epics of Camões and Spenser -- Cartesian romance : universal origins and Le monde -- "This pendant world" : creating Miltonic modernity -- Epilogue : from cosmography to cosmopolitanism.
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