Groundbreakers : remarkable maps from the Low Countries, 1500-1900

Author(s)

• Schaik, Anne-Rieke van
• Alkins, Ted

Bibliographic Information

Groundbreakers : remarkable maps from the Low Countries, 1500-1900

Anne-Rieke van Schaik

Hannibal, c2024

Other Title

Grensverleggers

Note

Translation: Ted Alkins

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• The art of surveying : from local to national
• The many faces of a city : Antwerp and the urban culture of the Southern Netherlands
• News in abundance : navigating the media landscape in the seventeenth century
• Fresh off the press : cartographic updates for the Battle on the Scheldt (1630s)
• Unity and division : the Leo Belgicus in the Nothern and Southern Netherlands
• Through others' eyes : Italians in the Southern Netherlands
• From course to map : pilot guides and sea charts on board and ashore
• Terra incognita? : new oceans, new worlds
• Worlds of difference : maps of the ancient, medieval and modern world
• Big, bigger, biggest : world atlases and the creation of the Atlas maior
• Moving heaven and earth : science, instruments and the cosmos

Details

• NCID: BD09180971
• ISBN:
  • 9789464941043
• LCCN: 2024415996
• Country Code: be
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: dut
• Place of Publication: [Veurne]
• Pages/Volumes: 303 p., [4] folded leaves
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GA195.A57
  • DC23 : 911.492
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Phoebus Foundation
  • LCSH : Map collections -- Belgium -- Antwerp
  • LCSH : Early maps -- Benelux countries
  • CSHF : Cartographie -- Benelux
  • CSHF : Cartographie -- Histoire
  • LCSH : Benelux countries -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Benelux countries -- Maps -- 19th century