Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance

Ptolemy's Geography in the RenaissanceThe rediscovery of Ptolemys Geography has long been hailed as a key moment in the emergence of Renaissance culture, symbolizing a new rational spatiality, and preparing the way for the Age of Discovery. And yet, the process of the Geographys introduction, integration and impact in western Europe, as the essays in this volume collectively suggest, was more complex and less predictable than has been traditionally assumed. Whereas previously Ptolemys

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This collection captures the major facets the thought of this complex and controversial figure

written in a fluent style and with an eye for the telling anecdote

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It also contains explanatory notes on the text

Several European-level trade union organisations are also investigated

In Volume 2 of the series

Chapple has discovered a number of letters written by close relations that shed new light on her upbringing

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