Seth R Kimmel
Biographic Data
| ID | 11062838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth R Kimmel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimmel |
| SIGNATURE | KIMMEL S R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (1 work) · Historical Studies on Spain (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Humanism (1 work)