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Overcoming Ptolemy - The Revelation of an Asian World Region (Hardcover)
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Overcoming Ptolemy - The Revelation of an Asian World Region (Hardcover)
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Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no
way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system
bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This
is all the more important when we consider the longevity of the
Ptolemaic construct through and beyond the European age of
discovery allowing as well for its eventual revision or refinement.
Innovations in navigational science, cartographic representations,
and textual description are all called upon to illustrate this
theme. With its focus upon the macro-region termed India Extra
Gangem, literally the space between India and China, the book
unfolds a fourfold agenda. First, it explains the Ptolemaic world
system back to classical points of reference as well as to its
reception in late medieval Europe from Arabic sources. Second, it
tracks the erosion of the Ptolemaic template especially in the
light of new empirical data entering Europe from early travel
accounts as well as the first voyages of discovery. Third, through
selected examples, as with India, Southeast Asia, and China, it
seeks to expose textual and cartographic adjustments to the
classical models flowing from the scientific revolution. Fourth,
through an examination of Jesuit astronomical observations
conducted at various points in Asia, it demonstrates how Eurasia
was actually measured and sized with respect to its true
longitudinal coordinates such had deluded Columbus and even
succeeding generations. In short, this work problematizes the
creation of geographical knowledge, raises awareness as to the
making of region in Asia over long historical time-the Ptolemaic
world-in-motion-and, as a more latent agenda, sounds an alert as to
the perils of overdetermination in the setting of modern boundaries
whether upon land or sea.
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