Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions /
"Nomen est omen". A name is a prophecy, a destiny, or even a promise. Why was South America once referred to as Peru, "Peruana", or "América Peruana"? What role did the Potosí Mountain play in shaping these designations? And how did these perceptions affect the lands of...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
سلاسل:
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Mapping the Past ;
7.
الموضوعات:
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: N5305
- Contents
- Preface to the English Language Edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part 1: Describing a Continent Called Peruana
- 1 Naming a Continent
- 2 Potosí, the Mountain of Silver
- 3 Image Matrices
- 1 Peruana
- 2 Blaeu's Mural Map
- 3 Cosmography-Maps
- 4 Images by Arnoldus Montanus
- Part 2: From Mirage to Mines
- 4 "Pedestrian Realism" in Portuguese Cartography
- 5 Between Vapors and Earthquakes: the Origin of Metals and the Lands of Brazil
- 6 The Portuguese in Peru: Ambitious and Suspect
- Conclusions: the Anti-shaman
- Works Cited
- Index.