Imagined Corners : Exploring the World's First Atlas

Binding, Paul

ISBN 10: 0747230404 / ISBN 13: 9780747230403

Editore: Review, 2003

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Presentable, clean, tight and sound copy. Dust jacket has a nick at one corner, not price clipped. No inscriptions. 314 pages, numerous colour and other plates, bibliography, index. Approx. size 10" by 7.5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: cartography; maps; ISBN: 0747230404. ISBN/EAN: 9780747230403. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28518.

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• Titolo: Imagined Corners : Exploring the World's First Atlas
• Editore: Review
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0747230404
• ISBN 13: 9780747230403
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • cartography

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Riassunto

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had done—it presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world’s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet, cultural historian, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford.