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(2016) Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Dordrecht, Springer.
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.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2_10
Full citation:
Akkerman, A. (2016). Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin, in Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 127-137.
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