ATLAS: a cultural product of the Modern Age.

During the period known as Discoveries and Renaissance, European cartography increases its production, intending to develop and disseminate knowledge about the lands recently found. Various geographic characters, animals, vegetation and people featured the world that conquerors and explorers turned...

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Autor: Neves, Martha Couto
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Recursos:Colégio Pedro II
Repositorio:Revista Encontros
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.cp2.g12.br:article/342
Acesso em linha:https://portalespiral.cp2.g12.br/index.php/encontros/article/view/342
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Modern Age
Cartography
Discoveries
Maps.
atlas
cartografia
descobrimentos marítimos
mapas.
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Resumo:During the period known as Discoveries and Renaissance, European cartography increases its production, intending to develop and disseminate knowledge about the lands recently found. Various geographic characters, animals, vegetation and people featured the world that conquerors and explorers turned wider to the inhabitants of the Old Continent. Making efforts to cover and introduce all the new territories and human groups in their science and domain, Europeans initiate the production of atlases. Searching the totalization, this type of cartographic work combines Geography and History and appeared at the late XVI century. Owing to the peculiarities of their construction, which put together picture and texts, and to their social and political meanings, the atlases are interesting sources to study culture at Modern Age.