Cartographer’s experience of time in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1606, 1613)
This article analyses the articulations of temporality in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Firstly, the atlas reflects the sense of the past as the cartographers had to assess the information included in ancient texts in relation to modern testimonies. Secondly, Hondius had to take into account the world...
| Published in: | Approaching religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
[publisher not identified]
[2016]
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| In: |
Approaching religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
/ Time perception
/ History 1606-1613
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| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Books - History
B Geography B Cartography B Maps B Gerhard B Mercator B Time B 1512-1594 B World View B Atlases |
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| Summary: | This article analyses the articulations of temporality in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Firstly, the atlas reflects the sense of the past as the cartographers had to assess the information included in ancient texts in relation to modern testimonies. Secondly, Hondius had to take into account the worldview provided by the explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Hence the experience of time articulated in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas reflected not only the cartographers’ ideas of the Dutch cartographic industry but also directed the making of the atlas. |
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| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Approaching religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30664/ar.67582 |