Overcoming Ptolemy : the revelation of an Asian world region /
Geoffrey C. Gunn
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | xxxiv, 289 pages ;
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| Opplysninger | The classical view of the Afro-Eurasian world -- The Islamic crossover -- Ptolemaic revival and cartographic adjustments in a transitional age -- Revisions to the Ptolemaic template in the Age of Discovery (1300-1500s) -- The European discoveries and the print revolution reprised (1500-1700) -- The Ptolemaic world-in-motion : Enlightenment science and the Jesuit advance on China -- The European framing of Ptolemy's India extra gangem -- Reimagining Ptolemy's sinus magnus and the historical geography of the China seas -- Conclusion : conclusion : post-Ptolemaic constructions of empire and nation-state.
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| ISBN | 9781498590136
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