The worldmakers : global imagining in early modern Europe

The worldmakers : global imagining in early modern Europe / Ayesha Ramachandran.

Author/creator	Ramachandran, Ayesha
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Description	288 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Geographical perception. Human geography. Historical geography. Cosmography. Philosophy and science--Europe --History. Europe--History. Europe--Civilization --16th century. Europe--Civilization --17th century.

Contents	Introduction : worldmaking and the project of modernity -- Mapping the body, mapping the world : Mercator's Atlas -- On cosmographic autobiography : Montaigne's Essais -- Cosmic politics : the worldly epics of Camões and Spenser -- Cartesian romance : universal origins and Le monde -- "This pendant world" : creating Miltonic modernity -- Epilogue : from cosmography to cosmopolitanism.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2015005557
ISBN	9780226288796 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	022628879X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	022628882X
ISBN	9780226288826
Standard identifier#	40025421753

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