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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Nanetti, Andrea, Cattaneo, Angelo, Cheong, Siew Ann, Lin, Chin-Yew
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Art, Design and Media
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: World Maps; Knowledge Aggregators; Web Search Engines
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82880; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40423

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...