{"id":764,"date":"2014-10-20T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=764"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:48:04","slug":"rare-book-polyhistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2014\/10\/rare-book-polyhistor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Rare Book Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Archives holds a number of pre-1800 monographs, one such work is C. Julius Solinus\u2019 Polyhistor:<\/em> Treasury of memorabilia from all over the world<\/em>.
\nThis edition (shown below) was published in Basel, Switzerland in 1538.<\/p>\n

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Solinus was a third century Latin scholar, who compiled a number of earlier ancient texts in his Polyhistor<\/em>, including works from Pliny the Elder and the cartographer Pomponius Mela. Topics covered include the geography of the ancient world and a chronology of ancient Rome.<\/p>\n

A number of newer maps are credited to Sebastian Munster (1489-1552). Shown below is a map of Asia, while obviously lacking in details (including Japan) the map does contain a small portion of North American visible in the upper right, labeled \u2018terra incognita.\u2019 This has been called one of the earliest maps to feature the west coast of North America.<\/p>\n

\"Fold-out<\/a><\/p>\n

The same map also includes a number of ships and sea monsters along the bottom edge, in what would be the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

To learn more about map-making and the history of cartography please consult the library collection, including these works:<\/p>\n

The marvel of maps : art, cartography and politics in Renaissance Italy<\/a><\/p>\n

The power of projections : how maps reflect global politics and history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Archives holds a number of pre-1800 monographs, one such work is C. Julius Solinus\u2019 Polyhistor: Treasury of memorabilia from all over the world. This edition (shown below) was published in Basel, Switzerland in 1538. Solinus was a third century Latin scholar, who compiled a number of earlier ancient texts in his Polyhistor, including works … Continue reading “From the Rare Book Collection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-and-special-collections","category-rare-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}