Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-century Italy

Arts & Photography

Denis E. Cosgrove

Architecture

Leicester UP

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."―from the Preface Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space―to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo―images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. 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.

Apollo's Eye Ebook Eb

History

Europe

Johns Hopkins University Press

Water is a pervasive and essential element in natural and human landscapes and its control and management is a central concern for environmental managers and scientists. The aim of this book is to examine, from a range of perspectives and with a variety of examples, the role played by water management in the environment. The scale of investigation varies from the continental to the local, the historical framework from the ancient to the contemporary, the approach from the scientific to the literary, but the contributors, seek to bridge the traditional gulf between "human" and "environmental" approaches and to produce an integrated view of the relation between technology, culture and natural resources.

Water, Engineering and Landscape

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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