Here Begins The Dark Sea
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Here Begins The Dark Sea
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Author : Meredith Francesca Small
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Here Begins The Dark Sea written by Meredith Francesca Small and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with History categories.
The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water and land as they really existed. Fra Mauro's map was the first in history to show that a ship could circumnavigate Africa, and that the Indian “Sea” was in fact an ocean, enabling international trade to expand across the globe. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith F. Small reveals how Fra Mauro’s mappamundi made cartography into a science rather than a practice based on religion and ancient myths. Here Begins the Dark Sea brings Fra Mauro’s masterpiece to life as a work of art and a window into Venetian society and culture. In telling the story of this cornerstone of modern cartography, Small takes the reader on a fascinating journey as she explores the human urge to find our way. Here Begins the Dark Sea is a riveting testament to the undeniable impact Fra Mauro and his mappamundi have had over the past five centuries and still holds relevance today.
Inventing The World
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Author : Meredith Small
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Inventing The World written by Meredith Small and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with History categories.
An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.
The Dark Sea
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Author : John Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983-01-01
The Dark Sea written by John Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with categories.
Misadventures In Nature S Paradise
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Author : Graeme Henderson
language : en
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Misadventures In Nature S Paradise written by Graeme Henderson and has been published by UWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with History categories.
The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 18th century Dutch shipwrecks, and was expanded into a general account of the early island histories and associated mythological Indian Ocean islands and creatures.
Mapping Our World
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Author : Peter Barber
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Reference categories.
The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Social Practices
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Author : Chris Kraus
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Social Practices written by Chris Kraus and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Art categories.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick. A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. —from Social Practices Mixing biography, autobiography, fiction, criticism, and conversations among friends, with Social Practices Chris Kraus continues the anthropological exploration of artistic lives and the art world begun in 2004 with Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. Social Practices includes writings from and around the legendary “Chance Event—Three Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard” (1996), and “Radical Localism,” an exhibition of art and media from Puerto Nuevo's Mexicali Rose that Kraus co-organized with Marco Vera and Richard Birkett in 2012. Attuned to the odd and the anomalous, Kraus profiles Elias Fontes, an Imperial Valley hay merchant who has become an important collector of contemporary Mexican art, and chronicles the demise of a rural convenience store in northern Minnesota. She considers the work of such major contemporary artists as Jason Rhoades, Channa Horowitz, Simon Denny, Yayoi Kusama, Henry Taylor, Julie Becker, Ryan McGinley, and Leigh Ledare. Although Kraus casts a skeptical eye at the genre that's come to be known as “social practice,” her book is less a critique than a proposition as to how art might be read through desire and circumstance, delirium, gossip, coincidence, and revenge. All art, she implies, is a social practice.
The Wine Dark Sea Vol Book 16 Aubrey Maturin Novels
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Author : Patrick O'Brian
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-12-05
The Wine Dark Sea Vol Book 16 Aubrey Maturin Novels written by Patrick O'Brian and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Fiction categories.
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
Fra Mauro S Mappa Mundi And Fifteenth Century Venetian Culture
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Author : Angelo Cattaneo
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Pub
Release Date : 2011
Fra Mauro S Mappa Mundi And Fifteenth Century Venetian Culture written by Angelo Cattaneo and has been published by Brepols Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its main sources (auctores veteres such as Pliny, Solinus, Ptolemy, and novi, like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Marco Polo and Niccolo de' Conti) as well as of the composite networks of contemporary knowledge (scholasticism, humanism, monastic culture, as well as more technical skills such as marine cartography and mercantile practices), investigating the way they combine in the epistemological unity of the imago mundi. More a work on intellectual history than cartography, the book constructs a complex set of frameworks within which to situate Fra Mauro's monumental effort. These range from the cultural history of the reception of the world map from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the analysis of the material conditions under which map-makers such as Fra Mauro worked; from the history of ideas, especially of natural philosophy to the links between world representations and travel literature. It also addresses the Venetian reception of Ptolemy's Geography, the interactions between Venetian art, theology and cosmography and the complexities of the Venetian vernacular. The book develops a multi-tiered approach, in which different elements of the rich cultural context in which this world map was created, interact with each other, each casting a new light on the encyclopaedic work being analyzed.
On The Edge Of The Dark Sea Of Darkness
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Author : Andrew Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-29
On The Edge Of The Dark Sea Of Darkness written by Andrew Peterson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Religion categories.
After living for years under the occupation by the evil Fangs of Dang, the Igiby children find a map rumoured to lead to the lost Jewels of Anniera - the one thing the Fangs will do anything to find. The family is thrown headlong into a perilous adventure, uncovering truths about who they are that will change their world forever. Repackaged with new illustrations, this is the opportunity to discover the Wingfeathers.
Across The Dark Sea
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Author : Wendy Orr
language : en
Publisher: National Museum of Australia Press
Release Date : 2006
Across The Dark Sea written by Wendy Orr and has been published by National Museum of Australia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This series takes readers on a fictional journey through some fascinating Australian stories, inspired by objects from the National Museum of Australia's collection. Ages 7+.