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- Title
Cartografías de lo desconocido: Mapas en la BNE.
- Authors
Sáenz-López, Sandra; Pimentel, Juan
- Abstract
The exhibition "Cartographies of the unknown" held at the National Library of Spain between November of 2017 and January 2018, has shown an important collection of maps belonging to the Cartographic Service of the National Library of Spain and others Spanish institutions. Divided into six sections has managed to deepen in the maps as instruments of knowledge of the world in which we live by analyzing its forms, its projections, the land unknown in a stage of great explorations and discoveries, people and monsters they complement the maps and humanize them, the imaginary places that are described in the literature and that rely on the cartography to represent them. The silence of the maps, which hide maps by ignorance, by particular interests or by excess of information, ending with the relationship between cartography and other sciences such as astronomy, geology, architecture or medicine.
- Publication
Mapping (1131-9100), 2018, Vol 27, Issue 187, p64
- ISSN
1131-9100
- Publication type
Article