Description
First published in 1934, Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography is a critical commentary on a chronologically arranged bibliography of nearly two thousand contemporary printed and manuscript works. Poets, preachers and philosophers, mathematicians, physicians and astrologers, sailors, merchants and company-promoters were contributors to the absorbing medley that comprises the geographical literature of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. For this was the fading twilight of that Golden Age of unspecialized learning when all knowledge lay within one man’s compass. This book will be of interest to historians, economists, sociologists and litterateurs.
Table of Contents
1. Richard Hakluyt the Younger 2. The First Edition of the Principal Voyages, 1589 3. The Second Edition of the Principal Voyages, 1598-1600 4. Regional Geography, or Chorography: 1583-1625 5. Samuel Purchas: 1612-1626 6. Mathematical Geography, Navigation and Surveying 7. The Realm of Nature 8. Economic Geography 9. Economic Geography (continued) 10. General, Regional and Human Geography: 1625-50 11. The Urbane Traveller 12. Colonial Geography Bibliography Index of Subjects and Place Names Index of Personal Names
