Geography, cartography and nautical science in the Renaissance : the impact of the great discoveries

W.G.L. Randles

The transformation of the mediaeval European image of the world in the period following the great discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this work. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randles looks at the advances in Portuguese navigation and cartography that helped sailors overcome the obstacles to the circumnavigation of Africa and the crossing of the Atlantic, and at the impact of the discoveries on European culture and science. Other articles are concerned with Portuguese naval artillery, and with attempts to classify the indigenous societies of the newly-discovered lands and to map the interior of Africa.

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[目次]

  • Classical models of world geography and their transformation following the discovery of America
  • the Atlantic in European cartography and culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
  • the alleged nautical school founded in the 15th century at Sagres by prince Henry of Portugal called "The Navigator"
  • the emergence of nautical astronomy in Portugal in the 15th century
  • the recovery of Ptolemy's geography in Renaissance Italy and its impact in Spain and Portugal in the period of the Discoveries
  • from Mediterranean portulan chart to the marine world chart of the Great Discoveries - the crisis in cartography in the 16th century
  • Bartolomeu Dias and the discovery of the south-east passage linking the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean
  • la configuration cartographique du continent Africain avant et apres le voyage de Bartolomeu Dias -hypotheses et enseignments
  • the evaluation of Colombus' "India" project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographical science of the period
  • la cartographie de l'Atlantique a la veille du voyage de Christophe Colomb
  • Colomb decouvreur - perceptions contemporaines de son projet et de sa realisation
  • la science universitaire en Europe et les decouvertes Portugaises - Aristotelisme doctrinaire et experience des navigateurs
  • Portuguese and Spanish attempts to measure longitude in the 16th century
  • Pedro Nunez
  • discovery of the Loxodromic curve (1537) - how Portuguese sailors in the early 16the century, navigating with globes, had failed to solve the difficulties encountered with the plane chart
  • Le Nouveau Monde, l'autre monde et la pluralite des mondes
  • la diffusion dans l'Europe du XVIe siecle des connaissances gegraphiques dues aux decouvertes Portugaises
  • the artilleries and land fortifications of the Portuguese and their adversaries in the early period of the discoveries
  • "peuples sauvages" et "etats despotiques" - la pertinence, au XVIe siecle, de la grille Aristotelicienne pour classer les nouvelles societes revelees par les decouvertes au Bresil, en Afrique et an Asie
  • south-east Africa as shown on selected printed maps of the 16th century.

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書名 Geography, cartography and nautical science in the Renaissance : the impact of the great discoveries
著作者等 Randles, W. G. L.
シリーズ名 Collected studies series
出版元 Ashgate : Variorum
刊行年月 c2000
ページ数 1 v. (various pagings)
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780860788362
NCID BA48855963
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言語 フランス語
英語
出版国 イギリス
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