Groundbreakers : remarkable maps from the Low Countries, 1500-1900 / Anne-Rieke van Schaik ; translation, Ted Alkins.
| Author/creator | Schaik, Anne-Rieke van author. |
| Other author | Schaik, Anne-Rieke van. |
| Other author | Alkins, Ted, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | [Veurne] : Hannibal, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 303 pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 30 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Grensverleggers. English |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024415996 |
| ISBN | 9789464941043 |
| ISBN | 9464941049 (hardback) |
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