• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Maps for a Prince
  • Beteiligte: Wandel, Lee Palmer
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019
  • Erschienen in: Science in Context, 32 (2019) 2, Seite 171-192
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0269889719000176
  • ISSN: 1474-0664; 0269-8897
  • Schlagwörter: History and Philosophy of Science ; General Social Sciences
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  • Beschreibung: ArgumentThis 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.