Index of People, Places, and Terms

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 7
4. Introduction 9
5. 1. Decoding the Oceans : Rutter-Writing and the Emergence of Oceanic Rutters as a New Textual Genre 19
6. 2. Sixteenth-Century Nautical Treatises : The Definition of a New Genre of Technical Literature 51
7. 3. Monitoring the Paths of the Sea : Rutters, Laws, and Long-Distance Control in Sixteenth-Century Iberian Empires 93
8. 4. Traveling with and Updating “Secret” Knowledge : Van Linschoten and Iberian Nautical Rutters (1583–1596) 119
9. 5. The New Pathways of Knowledge : Early Modern Iberian Oceanic Rutters and the Emergence of a Global Knowledge Society 143
10. 6. The Problem of Relational Cardinality , the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic , and the Making of the Globe 173
11. 7. Precious Art or Tried and Tested Science : Early Modern Indian Ocean Navigation in Context 195
12. 8. From the Anecdote to the Report : Indian Ocean Pilots in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Literature 217
13. 9. The Poetics of Distance in the Early Modern European Imaginary 247
14. References 267
15. Index of People, Places, and Terms 295