Bokrecensioner
I enjoyed being able to compare a medieval cosmography showing a pair of angels rotating the machina mundi using hand-cranks with the complex armillary sphere some 200 pages later by Apianus.
This magnificent book is a monument to the effort and ingenuity that Europeans have devoted to understanding the wider world, a quest continuing to this day, and one that still relies on maps.”
THE MAPMAKERS’ WORLD: A Cultural History of the European World Map by Marjo T Nurminen – Geographical Magazine
A few decades before the Battle of Hastings, a scribe in Canterbury began compiling a new world map His world was square, with fat, red rivers and green mountains and an inland sea scattered with so many islands that it looked like a broken mosaic.
Review in the Times Literary Supplement of ”Metropolis: Mapping the city” by Jeremy Black, and ”The Mapmakers’ World: A cultural history of the European world map” by Marjo T. Nurminen
Review in the Times Literary Supplement of 1) ”Metropolis: Mapping the city” by Jeremy Black, and 2) ”The Mapmakers’ World: A cultural history of the European world map” by Marjo T. Nurminen 1) Bloomsbury. 224 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978
THE MAPMAKERS’ WORLD: A Cultural History of the European World Map by Marjo T Nurminen – Geographical Magazine
A few decades before the Battle of Hastings, a scribe in Canterbury began compiling a new world map His world was square, with fat, red rivers and green mountains and an inland sea scattered with so many islands that it looked like a broken mosaic.
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Below is the rough translation of part of review texts
The author places the Intellectual women in the context of history, deeply describe the life of these female scientists and external pressures they had to face when studying science or doing their research. This title offers the possibility of writing ”her-story” outside the domain of ”history” which focus on men.
