Cartographer’s experience of time in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1606, 1613)
Tunturi, Janne (2016)
Tunturi, Janne
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Janne Tunturi, University of Turku
Janne Tunturi works as a university lecturer in the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku. Tunturi has written and taught on the history of historical thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has also published articles and edited works on classical reception studies, on space and spatiality and on book history.
Janne Tunturi works as a university lecturer in the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku. Tunturi has written and taught on the history of historical thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has also published articles and edited works on classical reception studies, on space and spatiality and on book history.
Tiivistelmä
This article analyses the articulations of temporality in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Firstly, the atlas reflects the sense of the past as the cartographers had to assess the information included in ancient texts in relation to modern testimonies. Secondly, Hondius had to take into account the worldview provided by the explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Hence the experience of time articulated in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas reflected not only the cartographers’ ideas of the Dutch cartographic industry but also directed the making of the atlas.