The Idea of the Antipodes
Download or Read eBook The Idea of the Antipodes PDF written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Matthew Boyd Goldie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2010-01-31 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781135272173 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1135272174 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Idea of the Antipodes by : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Book excerpt: This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and bodily and humorous in the latest era.
