Apollo's Eye
Subtitle: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801864919
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History of ideas, intellectual history; History of specific subjects; Science/Mathematics; Globes; Science; Civilization; Earth Sciences - Geography; History; History / Europe / General; Geographical perception
First sentence: In Greek and Roman mythology Phoebus Apollo drives the sun's golden chariot above the terrestrial sphere, tracing the diurnal arc.
Description: "In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.".

"Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.