Cartography

The Renaissance or the rebirth of European civilization was the period following the Middle Ages. When Greece and Rome classical world declined and a surge of interest in new ways of perceiving the world, revolutionized techniques in art, literature, politics, science among others innovations created the foundation for our modern advancements. According to history-world.org, the Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for…

chapters, concequently, [would] afford us a fresh and potentially rich investigation of religious phenomena and of the American South.” (PG22) Examples of this freshness is through discussions about the roles of women and the lack of religious cartography in the South by Anne Firor Scott and Edwin S. Gaustad, respectively. Present scholars of the field will understand that women’s history became a popular topic in the 1960s, thus explains the “newness” of the study and lack of true historical…

allowed merchants to gain trade partners which contributed to the growth of mercantilism. Zahedieh’s article and Rose’s “Mathematics and the Art of Navigation” argue that a basic education was essential for both mariners and merchants. Turnbull’s “Cartography in Early Modern Europe” and Zahedieh’s article argue that communication networks were important for the diffusion of information. Benton’s “Legal Spaces of Empire” and Zahedieh’s article both contend that the enforcement of laws and…

sea until 1470, when French privateers attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank, but the young Columbus floated to shore on a scrap of wood and made his way to Lisbon, where he studied mathematics, astronomy, cartography and navigation. He also began to hatch the plan that would change…

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was born on October 31, 1451 in Genoa Italy. Christopher Columbus’s parents were middle class people. Columbus’s father was named Domenico Columbus. Domenico was born in 1414 in Genoa. Domenico was a wool weaver all of his life and he loved where he lived. Christopher’s mom was named Susanna Fontanarossa. Fontanarossa was born in 1435 in Genoa. She was a wool weaver as well. Christopher Columbus started sailing as a teenager. He would participate…

trip into the Atlantic and it nearly cost him his life. French privateers attacked the ship he was on off the cost of Portugal and he floated back to shore. From there Columbus traveled to Lisbon Portugal. Here he began to study navigation and cartography. (Bio) while he was here he also began to settle down and he married Felipa Perestrello. Columbus and…

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All of these items exemplified the accuracy of the map. According to J.B Harley in The New Nature of Maps Essays in the History of Cartography, “The accuracy of maps consists of mirroring their subject matter” (Pg.5). In Snow’s map, the subject was the deaths from Cholera in correlation with water pumps. Because of this, every death was located along with the water pumps in the area…

Christopher Columbus was born between October 31, 1450 and October 30, 1451. No one really knows his true birth date. He resided with his father, mother, three brothers, and one sister. His father was a middle class wool weaver and owned his own cheese stand. Columbus worked at this stand while he was a juvenile. Columbus enjoyed writing, but for some reason he never seemed to write in his native language, which was thought to be a Genoese variety of Ligurian. While he was a teenager, he worked…

sea until 1470, when French privateers attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank, but the young Columbus floated to shore on a scrap of wood and made his way to Lisbon, where he studied mathematics, astronomy, cartography and navigation. He also began to hatch the plan that would change…