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The practice of describing or mapping specific regions or districts, focusing on local detail and qualitative characteristics rather than global geography. In the early modern period, it was closely linked to antiquarianism and the study of local history.
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Appears in 93 Books
Conring, Hermann
Dante Alighieri; Landino, Christophoro (commentator)
Athanasius Kircher
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
[Hoffmann, Gottlieb?]
Leonardo da Vinci
Verdier, Antoine du
[Hoffmann, Gottlieb?]
Marcus Manilius
Philipp Clüver
Pomponius Mela; C. Frick (ed.)
Claudius Ptolemy
Elzevir Respublica Series
Philipp Clüver
Abraham Golnitz
Abraham Ortelius
Gerardus Mercator; Jodocus Hondius
Matthias de Lobel
Gerard de Jode
Girolamo Cardano
Vitruvius; Johannes de Laet (ed.)
Martianus Capella; ed. Francis Eyssenhardt
Gemma Frisius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Girolamo Fracastoro
Blaeu, Willem Jansz
Delisle, Guillaume
Claudius Ptolemy
Dionysius Periegetes (printed by Robert Estienne)
Niccolò Tartaglia
Barent Langenes
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Gerardus Mercator; Jodocus Hondius
Strabo (trans. Horace Leonard Jones)
Aemilius Baehrens
Karl Müller (ed.)
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Gerard de Jode
Philipp Clüver
Gerardus Mercator; Jodocus Hondius
Maurice Delafosse
Gerardus Mercator; Jodocus Hondius
Gerard de Jode
Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403–1472; Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica, -approximately 1194; Orville, Jacques-Philippe d', 1696–1751; Banks, Rev. John Cleaver, approximately 1766–1845; Orville, Jean d', 1734-; Orville, Jean d', 18th century; Andronicus Callistus, –1478
Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner
Proclus; Cleomedes; Aratus
Athanasius Kircher
Cardano, Girolamo
Philipp Clüver
Elzevir Respublica Series
Abraham Golnitz
Philipp Clüver
Dionysius Periegetes (printed by Robert Estienne)
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Barent Langenes
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Delisle, Guillaume