Apollo's Eye

by Cosgrove, Denis E.

• ISBN13: 9780801874444
• ISBN10: 0801874440
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-10
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."--from the Preface Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space--to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo--images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.

Author Biography

Denis Cosgrove is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Imperial and Poetic Globe

Classical Globe

Christian Globe

Oceanic Globe

Visionary Globe

Emblematic Globe and the Poetics of the World

Enlightened Globe

Modern Globe

Virtual Globe

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