| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 592 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies -- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter -- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients -- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian Europe -- From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition -- En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494 -- Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate -- The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-568) and index |
| Notes |
Print version |
| In |
ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subject |
Columbus, Christopher -- Knowledge -- Geography
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Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 -- Knowledge -- Geography
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Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420? -- Knowledge -- Geography
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 -- Knowledge -- Geography
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Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420? |
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Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 |
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 |
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Columbus, Christopher |
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Geography, Medieval.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Navigation -- History.
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Discoveries in geography
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Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
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Geography
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Geography, Medieval
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Intellectual life
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Navigation
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
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Tropics -- Geography
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Europe -- Intellectual life.
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America
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Europe
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Tropics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| ISBN |
0262232642 |
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9780262232647 |
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