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Maps for a Prince

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2019

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This article takes up what and how maps might have taught a Crown Prince in the century before maps became a part of classrooms and Mercator’s system of projection engendered those collective perceptions of space and person that have become a part of a modern shared spatial imagination. The focus of this article is a single codex, utterly unique, which scholars have posited was compiled in 1570 to accompany the Crown Prince of Jülich-Cleves-Berg on his Italian trip. This article argues that this codex was designed to teach him practices of spatial imagination, a concept this article introduces.

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Cartographyeducation of princesmapsGerard Mercatorpractices of spatial imaginationspace

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Science in Context , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe , June 2019 , pp. 171 - 192
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