{"id":1789539,"date":"2020-10-12T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789539"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:12:06","slug":"mapping-an-atlantic-world-circa-1500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/mapping-an-atlantic-world-circa-1500\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Out tomorrow from Johns Hopkins University Press<\/a>, Alida C. Metcalf\u2019s\u00a0Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500<\/em><\/strong><\/a> explores how sixteenth-century European maps conceptualized a new, Atlantic-centred world. From the publisher: \u201cMetcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world. Combined with the new placement of the Atlantic, the visual imagery on Atlantic maps\u2014which featured decorative compass roses, animals, landscapes, and native peoples\u2014communicated the accessibility of distant places with valuable commodities. Even though individual maps became outdated quickly, Metcalf reveals, new mapmakers copied their imagery, which then repeated on map after map. Individual maps might fall out of date, be lost, discarded, or forgotten, but their geographic and visual design promoted a new way of seeing the world, with an interconnected Atlantic World at its center.\u201d [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out tomorrow from Johns Hopkins University Press, Alida C. Metcalf\u2019s\u00a0Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 explores how sixteenth-century European maps conceptualized a new, Atlantic-centred world. 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