A Navigator's Universe: The Libro de Cosmographía of 1538 by Pedro de Medina

Waters, D. W.; Lamb, Ursula; Medina, Pedro de

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“…It was conveyed orally as much as by print. e Libro de cosmogra ía by Pedro de Medina -a teacher, astronomer, chronicler, and an examiner of ships' pilots in Seville -exists only in manuscript (see Medina 1972). It takes a simple question and answer form (here, questions from a pupil to a pilot), re ecting the experience of instruction and covering all the knowledge needed for pilots, navigators, and explorers.…”

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Cosmography, Knowledge in Transit: A Conspectus

Clare¹

2023

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From a modern perspective, it could be argued that cosmography was a protoscience, or ancestral to geography. To systemize it according to its modern legacy, however, dilutes its early modern diversity. Cosmography has a place in both the history of science and in historical geography, without being confined to either discipline. The article explores how cosmography circulated across disciplines, national borders, and social classes. It materialized not only in books, but in a variety of forms, including maps, instruments, letters, and lectures. Knowledge evolved as new discoveries were made about the earth and the heavens, but ideas gain traction only with difficulty when they breach conceptual boundaries. The first parts of the article will address sites, modes, and materials of knowledge exchange. In the final part, I will focus on caution, resistance, and censorship in the transmission and subsequent transformation of knowledge, with particular reference to the Copernican revolution.

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Section: Media: Network Communities Letters and Booksmentioning

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Cosmography, Knowledge in Transit: A Conspectus

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2023

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A Navigator's Universe: The Libro de Cosmographía of 1538 by Pedro de Medina

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