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A History of the World in 12 Maps

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by Jerry Brotton


  Babbage, Charles 396

  Babylonian astronomy 25

  Babylonian cosmology 2, 25, 59, 61

  ‘Babylonian Map of the World’ 1–3, 7, 8–9, 11

  Bachelard, Gaston 398–9

  Bacon, Francis: New Atlantis 299

  Badajoz 199, 201, 202

  Baghdad 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 76, 200, 422

  Bagrow, Leo 12

  Balboa, Vasco Núñez de 191

  , Zayd 64

  School of Geography 64–6

  Banks, Sir Joseph 332, 343–4

  Bar-Zeev, Avi 417, 420–21, 422

  Barrow, Sir John 337

  Basle 157, 168

  Batavia 280–81

  Bateson, Gregory 7, 13

  Beauvais 321, 322

  Behaim, Martin 163, 193, 194

  globe 194–5

  Belgium 218–19, 222

  Louvain see Louvain, Belgium

  Bell Laboratories 412

  Bello, Richard de 109, 110

  Bengal 373

  Bengal Atlas (Rennel) 344

  Berckenrode, Balthasar Florisz. van 273

  Berlin 348, 356, 385, 386

  Berlin Conference on Africa 345

  Berlin Geographical Society (Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin) 338

  Berne, Fifth International Geographical Congress 439, 441

  Berners-Lee, Tim 415

  Berthier, Louis-Alexandre 330, 331

  Bible

  and Augustine 92

  biblical maps 93, 94–5, 96, 227–32, 228–9

  and chronology 242–6

  early printing of 157

  exegesis of Church Fathers 102

  geography of 230

  Hebrews 107

  and the Hereford mappamundi 87, 89–90

  Luke 90, 92

  Lutheran translations of the New Testament 219

  Mercator’s study of the Gospels 256

  and Mercator’s wall map of the Holy Land 227

  Revelation 87, 90, 243

  and the Sawley Map 106

  Vulgate 92–3

  biogeography 353

  Bit Yakin 2

  Blaeu, Cornelis 279, 280

  Blaeu, Joan 261, 274, 278, 279, 280–93

  1648 world map 261–3, 288

  1662 world map 287–90

  Atlas maior 265–6, 282, 284–93, 431, 437–8

  as cartographer to the VOC 280–82

  globes 282

  Novus Atlas 283–4

  People’s Hall reproduction of world map 260–61, 262–3, 287, 288

  printing house 282–3, 285–6, 291

  as a slave trader 283

  Blaeu, Joan II 266

  Blaeu, Pieter 266

  Blaeu, Willem Janszoon 259, 266–80

  atlases 275–9, 280

  Light of Navigation 268, 276

  world map 268–72, 270–71

  Blaeu dynasty 265–93

  Blemmyes 88

  Bloemgracht 279, 283, 286

  Bodin, Jean 242–3

  Boer War 356, 360

  Boethius 224

  Boleyn, Anne 215

  Bologna 161

  Bonaparte, Napoleon 330–31

  Bonn 378

  Bonne, Rigobert, equal-area projection 341, 342

  Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes 79–81

  Book of Documents (Shu jing) 126–7, 128

  The Book of Roger (Entertainment) 55–9, 67, 68, 71–8, 79, 99

  ‘Book of Routes and Provinces’ see

  Boorstin, Daniel 148

  Borges, Jorge Luis 8

  Borough, William 253–4

  Bourbons 297, 298, 308, 315

  Bracamonte y Guzman, Don Casparo de, 3rd count of Penaranda 261

  Brahe, Tycho 262, 266–7

  Brandt, Willy 377

  Brandt Report 377–8, 379, 392, 398

  Brant, Sebastian 158, 170

  Brazil 155, 156, 174, 178, 179, 190–91

  Brest 307

  Brin, Sergey 422–3, 425, 427–8

  Britain and the British Seas (Mackinder) 357–9, 358–9, 366

  British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) 393, 395, 396

  British Council of Churches 380

  British Empire 356, 359, 360, 364–5

  British imperialism 344–7, 356–9, 362

  imperial protectionism 356–7, 360

  British Isles, Hereford mappamundi 86

  British Navy’s Admiralty charts 259

  Brittany 324, 330, 331

  Brooke, Sir Arthur de Capell 337

  Brown, John Carter 180

  Bry, Théodore de 259

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew 368–9

  Buchanan, George 257

  Buddhism 114–15, 120

  Burckhardt, Jacob 151

  Burden, Philip D. 146–7

  Burma 362

  Burton, Sir Richard 340

  Bush, George W. 368

  Cabot, Sebastian 201

  Cabral, Pedro Alvares 174, 179

  Caesar, Julius 91

  Cailliau, Robert 415

  California 288

  Callimachus of Cyrene 18, 44, 50

  Calon, Étienne-Nicolas de 294–5, 296

  Calvinism/Calvinists 238, 283

  Dutch Calvinist culture 265–6

  vs Remonstrants 274, 277

  Cambridge University 350–51

  Campen, Jacob van 260

  Canada 391, 413–14

  Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) 414

  Canary Islands 155

  Canerio/Caveri, Nicolo 152

  cannibalism 87

  Cano, Juan Sebastião del 197, 198–9, 201, 205, 210–11

  Canopus 40

  Cantilupe, Thomas 82, 83–4, 109, 110–11

  tomb of 83

  Cantino, Alberto 190

  Cantino planisphere 190–91

  Cao Song 135

  Cape Verde islands 155, 203–4, 212

  Capella, Martianus 101–2, 106, 157, 224

  Capitaine, Louis 329, 330

  cardinal orientation of maps see orientation of maps

  Caribbean Islands 155, 174, 190

  Carroll, Lewis: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded 8

  Carte de Cassini see Cassini map of France, Carte de Cassini

  Carte de France corrigée (Picard and La Hire) 306–7, 307

  Carte des Assemblages des Triangles 328, 330

  ‘Carte particulière des environs de Paris’ (Picard) 304–5, 306

  Carter, John 111–12, 112

  Les Cartes générales de toutes les provinces de France (Sanson) 298

  cartograms 404

  cartography see mapmaking and cartography

  Casa da Mina e India 200

  Casa de la Contratación, Seville 200, 201, 202, 263

  Casa del la Especieria 207

  Cassini de Thury, César-François (Cassini III) 295, 314–26, 316–17, 332–3, 334

  Cassini projection 341

  ‘New Map of France’ 314, 316–17

  Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Cassini I) 295, 299, 308, 311

  Cassini, Jacques (Cassini II) 295, 308, 309, 311, 312, 314

  Cassini, Jean-Dominique (Cassini IV) 295–6, 326–9, 333

  Cassini map of France, Carte de Cassini 12–13, 294–336, 437, 439

  Carte des Assemblages des Triangles 328, 330

  and determining the shape of the earth 308–11, 312–14

  funding 318, 322, 323

  influence on Ordnance Survey 332–3

  na
tionalization 294–7, 328–9

  origins 298–307

  surveying the country 307–8, 311–27

  Cassini world projection 341

  Castells, Manuel 409–10, 415

  Castiglione, Baldassare 209

  Castile 186–7, 188

  Casa de la Contratación 200, 201, 202, 263

  conflict with the Portuguese over the Moluccas 191–2, 193, 196, 197–200, 201–17

  mapmaking by Castilian trade organizations 200–201

  Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal 209, 210

  Caveri chart 152, 171

  Caveri, Nicolo 152

  celestial mapmaking 5, 30, 42, 180, 194, 240, 266, 267, 289–90

  star mapping 116–18, 394–5

  CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) 415

  Certaine Errors in Navigation (Wright) 256

  CGIS (Canada Geographic Information System) 414

  Challenger expedition 347

  Chamberlain, Joseph 356–7

  Chaos 24

  Charlemagne 223

  Charles V, Emperor 192, 198, 199, 202–3, 207, 209–10, 211, 213–14, 218–19, 223, 226, 237–8, 239, 240

  Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy 159

  Chaves, Alonso de 201

  Cherbourg 307

  Chiericati, Francesco 198

  Chin, Denny 432

  China 114–45, 358, 376

  astronomy 125, 126

  cartography see Chinese mapmaking

  cosmography 125, 139

  cosmology 124–7

  ‘The General Survey Map of China and Non-Chinese Territories from the Past to the Present’ 136

  geography 126–7, 131, 134–5 see also Chinese mapmaking

  and Google Earth 408

  Han dynasty 129

  Jin dynasty 131

  in the Kangnido map 118

  Liaodong peninsula 114, 142

  mapmaking see Chinese mapmaking

  on the Mercator projection 391

  Ming dynasty 114, 115, 120, 122, 140–42

  Qin dynasty 128, 129

  Qingjun’s map of 121, 122, 122

  Song dynasty 134–6

  Zhongsan dynasty 129

  Chinese mapmaking 11, 58, 120, 121, 123–37

  grids 131–2

  influence on Kangnido map 123–37

  and ‘Ritual forms of Zhou’ 129–30

  Yudi tu (maps of the Empire) 129

  144

  , Tongguk chido 138–9

  chŏrography (regional mapping) 44, 50–51, 81, 301, 304–5, 306, 314, 365

  dynasty 114–17, 121, 138, 140–41, 144

  On Christian Doctrine (Augustine) 92

  Christianity

  Bible see Bible

  Calvinism see Calvinism/Calvinists

  Charles V and the Catholic faith 219, 223

  Christ see Jesus Christ

  Christian world maps see mappaemundi

  and chronology 242–6

  Church Fathers see Church Fathers

  and the City of God 93–6

  clerical pluralism 82–3

  and cosmography 221–2

  cosmology and world history 90, 100, 102, 104–5, 107–8

  emergence as a global religion 91

  Fourth Lateran Council 82

  and the Habsburgs 219

  interrogation and punishment of heretics 218, 219, 239–40, 243

  and Islam 56, 70, 78

  Lutheranism 219, 227–30, 231, 235–6, 238

  mappamundi and the Christian vision 84–113 see also mappaemundi

  Mennonite movement 274

  Reformation see Reformation

  and religious repression/intolerance 218, 219, 221, 239–40, 243, 259

  and religious tolerance 219, 257

  Remonstrants 274, 277, 283

  Roman adoption of 93

  and Rome 93–6

  and spirituals 238–9

  as a universal, missionary religion 120

  Chronologia (Mercator) 243–7, 244–5, 254, 258

  chronology, world 241–6

  Chrysoloras, Manuel 160

  Church Fathers 98–102

  Latin Fathers 92–6

  Churchill, Sir Winston 369

  CIA 422

  Cicero 39–40, 224, 236, 246, 254, 258

  Republic 98

  ‘Circa 1492 : Art in the Age of Exploration’ exhibition, Washington 148

  circuit of the earth (periodos ) 22, 24

  Dicaearchus, Circuit of the Earth 34

  Eudoxus, Circuit of the Earth 30

  Hecataeus, Periodos 27

  circular maps 11, 72, 80–81

  The City of God (Augustine) 93–6

  Claesz., Cornelis 264, 266, 267

  Clark, William 150

  Clement VII, Pope 213, 214

  Cleomenes of Sparta 32

  climate

  Aristotle 31–2

  klimata/climates/zones 31–2, 39, 60–62, 64, 73, 98–9, 165–6, 224

  Posidonius 39

  clip-maps 416–18

  The Clouds (Aristophanes) 32–3

  Cochlaeus, Johannes 175–6

  Coeus 24–5

  cognitive mapping 4

  Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 298, 299–300, 301, 308

  Cold War 376, 442

  politics 387

  rhetoric 368

  collected atlases 292

  A Collection of Memorable Facts (Solinus) 106

  Cologne 222, 243

  Columbus, Christopher 37, 152–3, 162, 163–4, 186

  Columns of Hercules 27, 86, 107

  Comans, Michiel 261

  Commentary on Scipio’s Dream (Macrobius) 98–9, 236

  commercial enterprise of mapmaking 263–93, 429–31, 436

  see also Google Earth

  communication theory (Shannon) 410–11, 412, 413–14, 417, 418, 424

  Communism 376

  conformality 252, 342

  and equivalence 390–91, 393

  Confucianism 120

  Neo-Confucianism 115

  Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness 344

  Constantine I 93

  Constantinople 87, 93

  Contarini projection 234

  contemptus mundi 108, 110

  convivencia 54, 66–7, 78, 79

  Cooper, David 383

  Copernicanism 340

  Copernicus, Nicolaus 42, 258, 262

  and Blaeu’s 1662 world map 288, 289

  copperplate maps 161, 220, 225–7, 261–3, 268, 273, 275, 278, 285–91, 329, 339

  cordiform projection 233, 234, 235–7, 247

  Córdoba 66–7

  cosmogony, Greek 24–6, 30–31

  Cosmographia introductio (Waldseemüller) 165–7, 179, 180–81

  cosmography 5, 151, 160–61, 231, 236, 240, 241–3, 249, 250–51, 254, 259

  Chinese 125, 139

  concentric celestial 125

  Copernican 289

  Cosmographia introductio 165–7, 179, 180–81

  decline of 339–40

  and Mercator 221–2, 225, 240, 241–3, 246–9, 255–9

  Universalis cosmographia see Waldseemüller map, Universalis cosmographia

  cosmology

  Babylonian 2, 25, 59, 61

  Chinese 124–7

  Christian view of history and 90, 100, 102, 104–5, 107–8

  geocentric 26, 30, 31, 41–2, 98, 154, 160–61, 266–7, 288–9

  Greek 26, 28–32, 42

  heliocentric 42, 258, 262, 267, 279, 280, 289–90, 293

  Indian 61

/>   Islamic assimilation of cosmologies 60

  Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe (Humboldt) 348

  Crampton, Jeremy 391–2

  Cranach, Lucas: ‘The Position and Borders of the Promised Land’ 228–9, 230–31

  Crates of Mallos 38–9

  Crete 86

  Crius 24–5

  Cronus 24–5

  Crusades 56, 78, 79, 366

  Cuba 156, 174

  Cuo, royal tomb 129

  Cupid 288

  Curzon, George 347, 369

  cylindrical projection 232, 251–3, 268, 389, 395

  pseudo-cylindrical projection 341, 342, 389

  Cyprian, St 92

  Czechoslovakia 374–5, 375

  da Gama, Vasco 172, 188, 189

  Daedalus 86

  DaimlerChrysler 149

  Damascus 66

  Damian, St 92

  56

  56, 63–4

  Darwin, Charles 347, 396

  Darwinism 340, 347

  De Arca Noe Mystica (Hugh of Saint-Victor) 104

  De emendatione temporum (Scaliger) 258

  De la religion nationale (Fauchet) 327

  De natura rerum (Isidore of Seville) 100

  de Selve, Georges 215, 216

  decolonization 372, 376–7

  d’Églantine, Philippe Fabre 294, 295, 296

  del Cano, Juan Sebastião 197, 198–9, 201, 205, 210–11

  Delisle, Guillaume 315

  Delphi 26

  Democratic Ideals and Reality (Mackinder) 366, 367

  Dépôt de la Guerre, France 294–5, 329–30, 331

  Der 2

  Derrida, Jacques 399

  Descartes, René 308, 309

  Descriptio mappe mundi (Hugh of Saint-Victor) 103

  developing world 397–8

  Dias, Bartolomeu 187

  Dicaearchus of Messina 34, 34

  Didascalicon (Hugh of Saint- Victor) 103

  Didymus 91

  DigiPlace 409

  Digital Earth (Gore) 419–21

  DigitalGlobe 425, 426

  digital online mapping 15, 296, 405–36, 444

  Dinteville, Jean de 215, 216

  Diogenes Laertius 25

  Discovery Channel 149

  discovery, geographical 154–7, 162–7, 173, 175–6, 178

  first global circumnavigation 192–8

  navigation and maps 152–3, 183–4, 193–8, 200, 247, 249–54

  Doetsz, Cornelisz 264

  Donne, John 235

  Dorling, Daniel et al. 403–4

  Doxapatres, Nilos 70

  doxographers 25, 26

  Drosius, Joannes 237

  Dualism 58

  Dufief, Pierre 218

  Duisburg 223, 240–41

  Dürer, Albrecht 180

  Düsseldorf 240

  Dutch East India Company see VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie)

  Dymaxion projection 389

  Eames, Charles 416

  Eames, Ray 416

 

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