Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination / Denis Cosgrove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cosgrove, Denis E.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception.

Globes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]

Summary:

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."--from the Preface

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space--to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo--images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In "Apollo's Eye," geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.

Contents:

1 Imperial and Poetic Globe 1

2 Classical Globe 29

3 Christian Globe 54

4 Oceanic Globe 79

5 Visionary Globe 102

6 Emblematic Globe 139

7 Englightened Globe 176

8 Modern Globe 205

9 Virtual Globe 235.

Notes:

Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrison, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-317) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0801864917

OCLC:

44162407