Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps write by Chet Van Duzer. This book was released on 2013. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Sea Monsters
Sea Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea Monsters write by Joseph Nigg. This book was released on 2014-01-03. Sea Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Apocalyptic Cartography
Apocalyptic Cartography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalyptic Cartography write by Chet Van Duzer. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Apocalyptic Cartography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.
The Science of Monsters
The Science of Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Monsters write by Matt Kaplan. This book was released on 2013-10-08. The Science of Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Previously published as Medusa's gaze and vampire's bite by Scribner"--Title page verso.
Abominable Science
Abominable Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abominable Science write by Daniel Loxton. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Abominable Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
