Apollo's Eye

A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6491-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."—from the Preface

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space—to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo—images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cosgrove, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Imperial and Poetic Globe
Chapter 2. Classical Globe
Chapter 3. Christian Globe
Chapter 4. Oceanic Globe
Chapter 5. Visionary Globe
Chapter 6. Emblematic Globe and the Poetics of the World
Chapter 7. Enlightened Globe
Chapter 8. Modern Globe
Chapter 9. Virtual Globe

Über Autor(innen)

Cosgrove, Denis
Denis Cosgrove is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include The Iconography of Landscape, The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, and Mappings.