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Maps for a Prince
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2019
Argument
This article takes up what and how maps might have taught a Crown Prince in the century before maps became a part of classrooms and Mercator’s system of projection engendered those collective perceptions of space and person that have become a part of a modern shared spatial imagination. The focus of this article is a single codex, utterly unique, which scholars have posited was compiled in 1570 to accompany the Crown Prince of Jülich-Cleves-Berg on his Italian trip. This article argues that this codex was designed to teach him practices of spatial imagination, a concept this article introduces.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Science in Context , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe , June 2019 , pp. 171 - 192
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- © Cambridge University Press 2019
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