HIST1087 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rhumb Line, Ming Dynasty, Guzheng
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The world from a ship: rhumb lines, compass directions, and estimated distances. The renaissance, city planning, and geometry exact mapping is impossible, always have to make some kind of estimation people create spaces that are geometrically regular, mapping and depiction creates a depiction to a geometric plan. Claudius ptolemy"s (100-170 ce) geography ways things can be mapped textually - a set of coordinates renaissance project of restoring classical knowledge related to geopgrahic texts as well tradition that is not incompatible with t-o maps. T for the central t medieval system of mapping related to a scholar in seville before the conquest t-o map has within it certain value judgements and beliefs maps income belief systems and priorities. Jerusalem is the center of the t-o chart because of religious purposes encodes a christian worldview representational system is symbolic and not literal, not meant to be an areal view shows the wedges of continents.
