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dc.contributor.authorRELAÑO, Francesc
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-27T14:30:46Z
dc.date.available2017-06-27T14:30:46Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationAldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2002en
dc.identifier.isbn9780754602392
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/47031
dc.description.abstractWhen did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously acquired cosmographical elements. Among the themes investigated are: how did the image of Africa evolve from the conception of a symbolic space to a Euclidean representation?; how did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast?; once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absense of first-hand knowledge?; and, overall, in this whole process, what was the interplay of myth and reality?en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- Part I The African puzzle -- Part II The limits of symbolic space : from allegorical geometry to a figurative world -- Part III Charting Euclidean space : the cartography of the great discoveries -- Part IV From the form to the contents : the design of the unknown
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAshgateen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/5957
dc.titleThe shaping of Africa : cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in late medieval and early modern Europeen
dc.typeBooken
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dc.description.versionPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 1997en


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