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Apollo's Eye:

A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780801864919
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Carmen P. Cosgrove
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Local release date: 16/04/2001
Format: Hardback 352 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Geography [RG]

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''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. Cosgrove constructs a genealogy of global images from classical Greece and Rome to the present, giving special attention to the early sixteenth century, when Europeans circumnavigated the earth, relocated it within their understanding of the cosmos, and revolutionized its representation in models and maps. Each chapter focuses on specific images of the globe or whole earth, reproduced in a wealth of illustrations. Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged.

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1 Imperial and Poetic Globe

2 Classical Globe

3 Christian Globe

4 Oceanic Globe

5 Visionary Globe

6 Emblematic Globe and the Poetics of the World

7 Enlightened Globe

8 Modern Globe

9 Virtual Globe

""A fascinating and unique history.""

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Apollo's Eye:

A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination