Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West
Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West: Regional Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography) by Martijn Storms, Mario Cams, Imre Josef Demhardt, Ferjan Ormeling
2018 | ISBN: 3319904051 | English | 299 pages | PDF | 14 MB
2018 | ISBN: 3319904051 | English | 299 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included Asia’s place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy, Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping and cadastral mapping.