A medal minted by the Dutch West India Company in 1637 in honour of Krzysztof Arciszewski as a cartographic source
Abstract The author discusses a phenomenon of putting the works of military cartography on medals cast in the 17th century. The analysis focused on a medal presented to Krzysztof Arciszewski (1592-1656) by the Dutch West India Company in 1637. The obverse of this medal features two cartographic images depicting the siege of the Arraial Velho do Bom Jesus fortress (1635) and the battle between Camarigibi and Porto Calvo (1636). They were patterned after two manuscript maps. The maps were made by Arciszewski and attached to a memorandum written and sent to the management of the West India Compan... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Polish Cartographical Review ; volume 50, issue 3, page 151-161 ; ISSN 2450-6966 0324-8321 |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Schlagwörter: | General Medicine |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26621980 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2018-0010 |