Maps as Knowledge Aggregators: from Renaissance Italy Fra Mauro to Web Search Engines

• Main Authors: Nanetti, Andrea, Cattaneo, Angelo, Cheong, Siew Ann, Lin, Chin-Yew
• Other Authors: School of Art, Design and Media
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: World Maps; Knowledge Aggregators; Web Search Engines
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82880; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40423
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mediaeval and Renaissance maps of the world were and worked as knowledge aggregators. The cosmographers identified, selected and re-edited information about hundreds of places from a variety of literary, iconographic and oral sources, and synoptically re-organized them in place names, cartouches, an...