karl bühler digital

Home > Book > Chapter

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2016

Pages: 127-137

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319266992

Full citation:

, "Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin", in: Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

pp. 127-137

in: Abraham Akkerman, Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

The standard in cartography, set by Claudius Ptolemy in the second century CE, placing the North on a map in a superior, "up" position, extends during the Renaissance into placing Europe or the Holy Land at the centre of maps. Flattening a three-dimensional globe onto two dimensions of a map, Renaissance cartographic modeling had also conferred disproportionately larger allocation in a map to land mass close to circumpolar regions of the Northern Hemisphere, while the unknown Australia and Antarctica were nowhere to enjoy the same kind of acquiescing distortion.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2016

Pages: 127-137

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319266992

Full citation:

, "Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin", in: Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Berlin, Springer, 2016