Overcoming Ptolemy - The Revelation of an Asian World Region

This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the age of European discovery. It shows how this template was refined and ultimately overcome.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Classical View of the Afro-Eurasian World
2. The Islamic Crossover
3. Ptolemaic Revival and Cartographic Adjustments in a Transitional Age
4. Revisions to the Ptolemaic Template in the Age of Discovery (1300-1500s)
5. The European Discoveries and the Print Revolution Reprised (1500-1700)
6. The Ptolemaic World-in-Motion: Enlightenment Science and the Jesuit Advance on China
7. The European Framing of Ptolemy's India Extra Gangem
8. Reimagining Ptolemy's Sinus Magnus and the Historical Geography of the China Seas

Conclusion: Conclusion: Post-Ptolemaic Constructions of Empire and Nation-State

About the author

Geoffrey C. Gunn is emeritus professor at Nagasaki University.

Summary

This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the age of European discovery. It shows how this template was refined and ultimately overcome.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey C Gunn, Geoffrey C. Gunn, Gunn Geoffrey C.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781498590136
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9013-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: AsiaWorld; AsiaWorld
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; China, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Asia / China, ART / African, ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Asian History, African History, North Africa, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Oriental art, BCE period – Protohistory, c 2686 to c 323 BCE (Ancient Egyptian period)