Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Paper Worlds: Urbano Monte and the Global Renaissance
Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History,
Stanford University,
In 1587, the Milanese nobleman and cartographer Urbano Monte (1544-1613) completed an album of sixty hand-drawn, colored maps depicting different parts of the world. When assembled, they were intended to become a rotating map wheel that measures 9 feet 3 inches (2.8 meters) in diameter. Monte's map was a product of global curiosity as well as a synthesis of Renaissance cartography, travel narratives, histories, and news of the world. This mappamundi shows us how an armchair traveler viewed the world from Milan at the end of the Renaissance.
For more information, please contact Fran Tise by phone at 626-395-3609 or by email at ftise@hss.caltech.edu.
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science