Early Mapping of Southeast Asia: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions Between China and IndiaWith dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest of times up until the down of the modern era. using maps, itineraries, sailing instructions, traveler's tales, religious texts and other contemporary sources, it examines the representation of Southeast Asia, both from the historical perspective of Western exploration and cartography, and also through the eyes of Asian neighbors. Southeast Asia has always occupied a special place in the imaginations of East and West. This book recounts the fascinating story of how Southeast Asia was, quite literally, put on the map, both in cartographic terms and as a literary and imaginative concept. |
Contents
Southeast Asian Maps and Geographic Thought 24 | |
Endnotes | |
Asian Maps of Southeast Asia 44 | |
The Early Mediterranean | |
Medieval Europe 66 | |
Terra Australis The Line of Demarcation and Southeast Asia | |
Ortelius and Related Maps The Curious Case of the Philippine | |
Juan López de Velasco Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | |
Southeast Asia Giralomo Olgiato pgs 13637 fig 75 | |
Dutch and German Maps at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century | |
The Plancius map of circa 1594 The Linschoten map of 1595 | |
Waghenaers Chart of the Sunda Strait and the Transition to Printed | |
Burma Langenes pg 190 fig 107 | |
TOworld map Anonymous pg 37 fig 17 | |
European Pioneers 74 | |
Early | |
A Confusion of Peninsulas and Dragon Tails 90 | |
Printed Maps Through 1538 100 | |
Index | |
First Maps from the Spanish Voyages 15251540 124 | |
Chapter 11 | |
The Mainland on the 1548 Gastaldi Map | |
Tangling with Terra Australis and Snared by the Linea 158 | |
The Advent of the East India Companies 200 | |
The Trend Toward Printed SeaCharts | |
Italian and French Maps of the Later Seventeenth Century | |
Southeast Asia Melchisédech Thévenot pg 208 fig 121 | |
Holland in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century | |
Spain and the Philippines European Maps in Southeast Asia | |
World map Macrobius pg 68 fig 35 | |
Indochina Burma and Thailand Transition to the Modern | |
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