Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance

The Impact of the Great Discoveries

W.G.L. Randles

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000553239
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randles looks at the advances in Portuguese navigation and cartography that helped sailors overcome the obstacles to the circumnavigation of Africa and the crossing of the Atlantic, and at the impact of the Discoveries on European culture and science. Other articles are concerned with Portuguese naval artillery, and with attempts to classify the indigenous societies of the newly-discovered lands and to map the interior of Africa.

Index

• A Demanda do Santo Graal : XV 6 n.19
• Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi: IV 47
• Abu ibn Mu^eadh: IX 13; X 926 n.3
• Abyssinia: XIX 70, 74, 80, 82, 84
• Aceh (Moslem state): XVII 11
• Acosta, José de: I 55
• Adam, (descendants of): I 20, 21, 40; II 27; XVII 307
• Aden: XVII 8
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini: I 37–38; VI 3, 4 n.15; VII 26 n.35; IX 10; X 928; Pius II (Pope)
• Aethiopians: I 27, 28
• Afonso, D. Alvaro (Bishop of the Algarve): III 9; V 3; VII 20; VIII 111 n.1
• Afonso V, D.: see King of Portugal (D. Afonso V)
• Africa: I 7, 13, 34, 52, 54, 55, 62; II 22
• Agathodaimon: V 1
• Aggregate of centres of gravity of earth and water:
  • Albert of Saxony: I 34
  • Pierre d’Ailly: I 34
• Agisymba: VII 28; VIII 116
• Agricola, Rudolf: I 66
• Aguia (gun): XVII 10, 15
• Albalidet (islands): II 2
• Albert the Great: see Albertus Magnus
• Albertus Magnus: I 26; XV 3, 32
• Albert of Saxony:
  • Quaestiones in libros de Caelo et Mundo: 133 n.108; XII 23 n.7
  • In libros Physicorum: I 34 n.110
• Albumasar: I 27
• Albuquerque, Afonso de: XVII 6–9; XIX 74
• Albuquerque, Luís de: II 13, 15; III 1 n.2, 11, 12, 14 n.85, n.90; IV 55 n.17, n.18, 49, 56 n.33, 51, 52, 57 n.57, n.65, n.67, 54; VI 3 n.12, n.13, 5; VII 20 n.8; VIII 112 n.8; XIII 406 n.l, 408 n.44; XIV 94 n.6, n.8, 95 n.28
• Alcácer Ceguer: XVII 2, 3
• Alcalá de Henares: IV 48
• Alexander Neckam_ I 18 n.55
• Alexander of Aphrodisias (quoted by Simplicius): I 33
• Alexander the Great: XV 10, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Series Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Publisher's Note
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I Classical models of world geography and their transformation following the discovery of America
• II The Atlantic in European cartography and culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
• III The alleged nautical school founded in the fifteenth century at Sagres by Prince Henry of Portugal, called the 'Navigator'
• IV The emergence of nautical astronomy in Portugal in the XVth century
• V The recovery of Ptolemy's Geography in Renaissance Italy and its impact in Spain and Portugal in the period of the Discoveries
• VI From the Mediterranean portulan chart to the marine world chart of the Great Discoveries: the crisis in cartography in the sixteenth century
• VII Bartolomeu Dias and the discovery of the south-east passage linking the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean
• VIII La configuration cartographique du continent africain avant et après le voyage de Bartolomeu Dias: hypothèses et enseignements
• IX The evaluation of Columbus' 'India' project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographical science of the period
• X La cartographie de l'Atlantique à la veille du voyage de Christophe Colomb
• XI Colomb découvreur: perceptions contemporaines de son projet et de sa réalisation
• XII La science universitaire en Europe et les découvertes portugaises: Aristotélisme doctrinaire et expérience des navigateurs
• XIII Portuguese and Spanish attempts to measure longitude in the sixteenth century
• XIV Pedro Nunes' discovery of the loxodromic curve (1537): how Portuguese sailors in the early sixteenth century, navigating with globes, had failed to solve the difficulties encountered with the plane chart
• XV Le Nouveau Monde, l'autre monde et la pluralité des mondes
• XVI La diffusion dans l'Europe du XVIe siècle des connaissances géographiques dues aux découvertes portugaises
• XVII The artilleries and land fortifications of the Portuguese and of their adversaries in the early period of the Discoveries
• XVIII 'Peuples sauvages' et 'états despotiques': la pertinence, au XVIe siècle, de la grille aristotélicienne pour classer les nouvelles sociétés révélées par les Découvertes au Brésil, en Afrique et en Asie
• XIX South-east Africa as shown on selected printed maps of the sixteenth century Imago Mundi 13. The Hague, 1956
• Index