The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook
by William Eisler-
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Summary
Table of Contents
List of illustrations | |
Introduction | |
Part I. The Invention of a Southern Continent: 1. Terra Australis in antiquity and the Middle Ages | |
2. Terra Australis in the early Renaissance | |
3. Java la Grande and Magellanica | |
4. Spanish vision of the Austral world: Medañ | |
a, Quiró | |
s, Torres | |
5. Exotica in sixteenth century Spain | |
6. Art, science and exploration in Elizabethan England | |
Part II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion (1606-1756): 7. The Dutch image of the Southland | |
8. Dutch Australian expeditions: 1606-36 | |
9. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland (1636-45) | |
10. Art and the Dutch trading companies | |
11. The Great Southland and the republic of letters: Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) and his Kunstkammer | |
12. Epilogue | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography. |
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