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Mirror of the Worlde
The Mirror of the Worlde is an important addition to the canon of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. Best known for her play The Tragedy of Mariam, Cary is revealed here as a sheltered but precocious child who translated the texts accompanying the maps in an early modern atlas when she was no more than twelve. This book identifies the source text and makes widely available for the first time the full transcription of Elizabeth Cary's manuscript translation of L'Epitome du Théâtre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius (c. 1588). Dedicated to her mother's well-connected aristocratic uncle, Sir Henry Lee, The Mirror of the Worlde - one of the first known English versions of Ortelius - is a rich source of information about her childhood and education, the writers who influenced her, and the emerging themes and preoccupations that would come to inform her later work. Peterson's critical edition illuminates the strategies by which this savvy young writer finds means to comment on the atlas' descriptions, reveals an active and original authorial presence, and suggests a much earlier interest in Catholicism than biographers have hitherto considered. An impressive work of apprenticeship, The Mirror of the Worlde shows Cary honing her poetic craft, mastering the rhetoric of polite resistance, and, above all, thinking critically about the place of women in the wide, wonderful, and often violent world that Ortelius depicted.
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Getting the Message of Abraham Ortelius’ Heart-Shaped Map and Atlas
In 1564, the celebrated Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius published his first cartographic work: a world map in the shape of a heart. This map manifests a spiritual call toward world unity heavily influenced by the heterodox sect known as the Family of Love. Six years later, Ortelius published the first edition of his groundbreaking magnum opus, an atlas entitled Theatrum orbis terrarum. With this later work, the unorthodox message of his cordiform map was not erased but transmuted into the form of an atlas. Abraham Ortelius’ example demonstrates how the ways in which knowledge circulated within humanist networks ensured that spiritual concerns, particularly unorthodox ones, continued to influence European cartography long after the rediscovery and translation of Ptolemy in the early fifteenth century.
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ALTERAR LOS MÁRGENES: ANOMALÍAS EN UN MAPA DEL CUZCO 1
According to his proposal, maps work not as documents, but as stories with a capacity for argumentation, intrigue, discursive course and climate conclusion. [...]their reading, at least in their colonial mode, is full of dangers, especially if they portray marginal regions, borders and peripheries with respect to the centre of imperial power. On some of these occasions, changes, tropisms, alterations and mixtures occur on the sides of the representation that make the map a hypertext with a strong index load, in a less semiotic than Benjaminian sense of the term and, therefore, capable of going beyond its first referential and illustrative condition. Keywords: maps, margins, indiciality, colonial power I. Fue Michel Foucault el que, al hablar de un régimen material del enunciado, venía a insistir en el carácter acumulativo y archivero de todo discurso. Tampoco hay una sola mención por parte de Benzoni, el autor de la crónica que De Bry ilustra, a esas extrañas actividades -trapecistas, comerciantes, idólatras o bailarines- en los márgenes de la capital del imperio inca, cuya descripción dentro del texto resulta tan esquemática como inventada.
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Dirk Hartog lands on beach, the gold-bearing province
Dirk Hartog, master of the 'Eendracht', landed in October 1616 on the coast of a land then known as Beach. Beach was a prominent feature of the 'Terra Australis' on maps of that time. The name was a corruption of 'Locach', a country described by Marco Polo. The location of 'Locach' has been called one of the great riddles of Polo's text. It is likely that Marco Polo intended to refer by this name to Cambodia. Due to corruption and misunderstanding of Polo's text, 'Beach / Locach' was displaced from its true position to the 'Terra Australis', where it was found by Dirk Hartog in October 1616 and subsequently inspired Abel Tasman's expedition in 1642.
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Dirk Hartog lands on beach, the gold-bearing province
Dirk Hartog, master of the 'Eendracht', landed in October 1616 on the coast of a land then known as Beach. Beach was a prominent feature of the 'Terra Australis' on maps of that time. The name was a corruption of 'Locach', a country described by Marco Polo. The location of 'Locach' has been called one of the great riddles of Polo's text. It is likely that Marco Polo intended to refer by this name to Cambodia. Due to corruption and misunderstanding of Polo's text, 'Beach / Locach' was displaced from its true position to the 'Terra Australis', where it was found by Dirk Hartog in October 1616 and subsequently inspired Abel Tasman's expedition in 1642.
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A new forerunner for continental drift
Abraham Ortelius was the first to express ideas concerning continental drift. In the late 1500s, Ortelius noted the congruity of coastlines of the Old and New Worlds. Other scientists who contemplated continental drift are discussed.
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Ad ductum itineris et dispositionem mansionum ostendendam: Meditation, Vocation, and Sacred History in Abraham Ortelius's \Parergon\
Published as an addendum to Abraham Ortelius's \"Theatrum orbis terrarum\", the \"Parergon sive veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae \"consists of historical maps that trace the journeys of famous men and peoples of the ancient world. The maps devoted to sacred history constitute a subset characterized by their meditative format and function. They describe the peregrinatio of Old and New Testament figures who fulfilled their sacred vocation by undertaking arduous pilgrimages, upon whose nature and scope the maps and their corollary texts invite the viewer to reflect. My essay examines how Ortelius's maps serve as templates for meditative prayer: they establish a precise itinerary composed of loci, the sacred places through which holy men such as Abraham, Moses, and Paul passed, retraced by the viewer who embarks on an imaginative pilgrimage in their footsteps; the loci are also prompts to scriptural places, biblical passages that trope the notion of peregrinatio, explicating the divinely mandated journey in terms of conversion and vocation.
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Getting the drift on continental shifts
While Alfred Wegener is known for presenting a detailed scientific theory of continental drift in 1912, a researcher has now traced elements of that theory back three centuries earlier, to cartographer Abraham Ortelius.
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