Ships on maps [Elektronisk resurs] ; Pictures of power in renaissance Europe / Richard W. Unger.

• List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of Shipbuilding Terms Introduction Maps and Mapping Making Maps without Ships, with Ships Mapping before the Renaissance Portolans and the Late Medieval Transition The Classical Revival, Printing and Maps New Routes and Portuguese Map Makers Iberian Influence in Southern Europe Northern Europe and Southern Practices Ships, Geography, and Humanism Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index.

• Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world. -- Ships on maps in the sixteenth century were signs of European conquest of the seas. Cartographers commemorated the new found dominion over the oceans by putting the most technically advanced ships of the day all over oceans, estuaries, rivers, and lakes on all kinds of maps. Ships virtually never appeared on maps before 1375. The dramatic change from medieval practice had roots in practical problems but also in exploration and new geographical knowledge. Map makers produced beautiful works of art and decorated them with the accomplishments which set Europeans apart from their classical past and from all the other peoples of the world. Ships on Maps investigates how, long admired but little understood, the many ships big and small that came to decorate maps in the age when sailors began to sail around the world were an integral part of the information summarizing a new age. 

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Map drawing  -- History. (LCSH)

Ships in art  -- History. (LCSH)

Cartography, map-making & projections.  (bicssc)

European history.  (bicssc)

Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.  (bicssc)

Economic history.  (bicssc)

Social & cultural history.  (bicssc)

Geography.  (ukslc)

Cartography, map-making & projections  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

European history  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Economic history  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Social & cultural history  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

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