商品簡介
Before Amsterdam developed into Europe’s most important commercial hub in the seventeenth century, demanding and controlling manufacture of maps and sea-charts, a major School of Cartography already flourished in the so-called ‘Kop van Noord-Holland’, the region just north of Amsterdam. This School specialised in the production of small-scale charts of larger areas, like European coastlines, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
作者簡介
Gunter Schilder (Vienna, 1942) studied geography and history at Vienna University from 1960 to 1967. He obtained a PhD at Vienna University in 1970. Since 1971 he worked in the Netherlands at Utrecht University on the history of cartography. In 1981 he was appointed Professor for History of Cartography, a position he held until his retirement in 2005. Schilder is author of numerous publications on the history of Dutch cartography and discoveries. His Opus Magnum, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica (1986-2013) in nine volumes, has substantially increased our knowledge of and appreciation for Dutch cartography in its Golden Age.In 1981, Professor Schilder has founded the Research Programme Explokart at the Utrecht University; this renowned programme was later (2013) re-located to the University of Amsterdam, Special Collections Department. Results generated by the Research Group, which consists of academics and dedicated volunteers, are published in the Explokart Studies on the History of Cartography, enjoying national and international appreciation.
