Making a Global Image of the World: Science, Cosmography and Navigation in Times of the First Circumnavigation of Earth, 1492-1522

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Culture & History Digital Journal Pub Date : 2021-10-20 DOI:10.3989/chdj.2021.014
Antonio Sánchez
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The voyages of exploration and discovery during the period of European maritime expansion and the immense amount of information and artefacts they produced about our knowledge of the world have maintained a difficult, if not non-existent, relationship with the main historiographical lines of the history of early modern science. This article attempts to problematize this relationship based on a historical account that seeks to highlight the scientific and institutional mechanisms that made the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first modern voyage, possible. The text argues that this voyage was the first modern voyage because it allowed the construction of a new scientific and cartographic image of the globe and contributed to our understanding of the world as a global world, altering the foundations on which modern European economic and geographic thought was based. In that sense, the voyage was something extraordinary, but not completely unexpected. It responded to a complex process of expansionary policy and technical development that dated back to the 15th century, which in 1519 was sufficiently articulated to carry out a great feat.
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制作世界的全球图像:第一次环球航行时代的科学、宇宙学和航海,1492-1522
欧洲海洋扩张时期的探索和发现之旅,以及它们产生的关于我们对世界知识的大量信息和人工制品,即使不是不存在,也与早期现代科学史的主要历史线保持着艰难的关系。本文试图在历史叙述的基础上对这种关系进行质疑,试图强调使麦哲伦-埃尔卡诺号航行(第一次现代航行)成为可能的科学和制度机制。该文本认为,这次航行是第一次现代航行,因为它允许构建一个新的全球科学和地图图像,并有助于我们将世界理解为一个全球性世界,改变了现代欧洲经济和地理思想的基础。从这个意义上说,这次航行非同寻常,但并非完全出乎意料。它回应了可追溯到15世纪的扩张政策和技术发展的复杂过程,1519年,这一过程被充分阐明,实现了一项伟大的壮举。
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期刊介绍: Culture & History Digital Journal features original scientific articles and review articles, aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. Using an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.
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