The History of Cartography

Volume Three

Cartography in the European Renaissance

Edited by David Woodward

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

I Setting the Stage

1

Cartography and the Renaissance: Continuity and Change, David Woodward

2

The Role of Maps in Later Medieval Society: Twelfth to Fourteenth Century, Victoria Morse

II The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays

Maps and Renaissance Culture

Cosmography and Celestial Mapping

3

Images of Renaissance Cosmography, 1450-1650, Denis E. Cosgrove

4

Renaissance Star Charts, Anna Friedman Herlihy

5

Lunar, Solar, and Planetary Representations to 1650, R. H. van Gent and A. Van Helden

6

Globes in Renaissance Europe, Elly Dekker

Charting

7

The Renaissance Chart Tradition in the Mediterranean, Corradino Astengo

8

Isolarii, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries, George Tolias

The Visual, Mathematical, and Textual Models
for Mapping in the Renaissance

9

The Reception of Ptolemy’s Geography (End of the Fourteenth to Beginning of the Sixteenth Century), Patrick Gautier Dalché

10

Map Projections in the Renaissance, John P. Snyder

11

The European Religious Worldview and Its Influence on Mapping, Pauline Moffitt Watts

Literature and Maps

12

Early Modern Literature and Cartography: An Overview, Tom Conley

13

Literature and Mapping in Early Modern England, 1520-1688, Henry S. Turner

14

Cartography and Literature in Early Modern France, Nancy Bouzrara and Tom Conley

15

Literary Mapping in German-Speaking Europe, Franz Reitinger

16

Maps and Literature in Renaissance Italy, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

17

Mapping Maritime Triumph and the Enchantment of Empire: Portuguese Literature of the Renaissance, Neil Safier and Ilda Mendes dos Santos

18

Literature and Cartography in Early Modern Spain: Etymologies and Conjectures, Simone Pinet

Technical Production and Consumption

19

Land Surveys, Instruments, and Practitioners in the Renaissance, Uta Lindgren

20

Navigation Techniques and Practice in the Renaissance, Eric H. Ash

21

Signs on Printed Topographical Maps, ca. 1470-ca. 1640, Catherine Delano-Smith

22

Techniques of Map Engraving, Printing, and Coloring in the European Renaissance, David Woodward

23

Centers of Map Publishing in Europe, 1472-1600, Robert Karrow

24

Maps as Educational Tools in the Renaissance, Lesley B. Cormack

25

Maps in Renaissance Libraries and Collections, George Tolias

Maps and Their Uses in Renaissance Governance

26

Maps and the Early Modern State: Official Cartography, Richard L. Kagan and Benjamin Schmidt

27

Portraying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning, Hilary Ballon and David Friedman

28

Maps and Rural Land Management in Early Modern Europe, Roger J. P. Kain

29

Warfare and Cartography, ca. 1450 to ca. 1640, John Hale

30

Maps and Exploration in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

III State Contexts of Renaissance Mapping

Italian States

31

The Italian Map Trade, 1480-1650, David Woodward

32

Cycles of Painted Maps in the Renaissance, Francesca Fiorani

33

Cartography in the Duchy of Savoy during the Renaissance, Paola Sereno

34

Cartographic Activities in the Republic of Genoa, Corsica, and Sardinia during the Renaissance, Massimo Quaini

35

State, Cartography, and Territory in Renaissance Veneto and Lombardy, Emanuela Casti

36

Cartography in the Central Italian States from 1480 to 1680, Leonardo Rombai

37

Cartography in the Kingdom of Naples during the Early Modern Period, Vladimiro Valerio

Portugal

38

Portuguese Cartography in the Renaissance, Maria Fernanda Alegria, Suzanne Daveau, João Carlos Garcia, Francesc Relaño

Spain

39

Spanish Peninsular Cartography, 1500-1700, David Buisseret

40

Spanish Nautical Cartography in the Renaissance, Alison Sandman

41

Spanish Colonial Cartography, 1450-1700, David Buisseret

German Lands

42

Cartography in the German Lands, 1450-1650, Peter H. Meurer

Low Countries

43

Surveying and Official Mapping in the Low Countries, 1500-ca. 1670, Cornelis Koeman and Marco van Egmond

44

Commercial Cartography and Map Production in the Low Countries, 1500-ca. 1672, Cornelis Koeman, Günter Schilder, Marco van Egmond, and Peter van der Krogt

45

Maritime Cartography in the Low Countries during the Renaissance, Günter Schilder and Marco van Egmond

46

Mapping the Dutch World Overseas in the Seventeenth Century, Kees Zandvliet

France

47

Maps and Descriptions of the World in Sixteenth-Century France, Frank Lestringant and Monique Pelletier

48

National and Regional Mapping in France to About 1650, Monique Pelletier

49

French Cartography: The ingénieurs du roi, 1500-1650 David Buisseret

50

Representations of Territory by Painters, Engineers, and Land Surveyors in France during the Renaissance, Monique Pelletier

51

The Mapping of Samuel de Champlain, 1603-1635, Conrad E. Heidenreich

52

Marine Cartography and Navigation in Renaissance France, Sarah Toulouse

53

Publishing and the Map Trade in France, 1470-1670, Catherine Hofmann

British Isles

54

Mapmaking in England, ca. 1470-1650, Peter Barber

55

Colonial Cartography in a European Setting: The Case of Tudor Ireland, J. H. Andrews

56

The Kingdom of Scotland: Cartography in an Age of Confidence, Jeffrey Stone

57

The London Map Trade to 1640, Laurence Worms

58

Chartmaking in England and Its Context, 1500-1660, Sarah Tyacke

59

Colonial Cartography under the Tudor and Early Stuart Monarchies, ca. 1480-ca. 1640, Robert C. D. Baldwin

Scandinavia

60

Scandinavian Renaissance Cartography, William R. Mead

East-Central Europe

61

Renaissance Cartography in East-Central Europe, ca. 1450-1650, Zsolt Török

Russia

62

Russian Cartography to ca. 1700, L. A. Goldenberg

Editor and Authors

Bibliographical Index

General Index, Margie Towery