[...]ley)
grid, superimposed on the map
a common topos in Persian painting
this ‘anticipation of drink’ is construed (in the title of Olearius map of persia) as a gesture of welcome and hospitality; providing the viewer with an iconic image of two “typical” inhabitants and their form of dress
this continues today
on the Persians’ inner nature and customs
establishing the Duke's geographical purview
through ‘knowledge’ and ‘discovery’
(Conley)
(cartography during early modern age afforded to) the emerging self and the self's relation to
between raw perception and creative imagination
surveying and plotting the world
the drama of european literature
-the self seems to be produced in the form of a subject, as a paradoxical being divided between a representation of the conditional relations it is producing and the composite nature of the simultaneously aural and visual medium of print
-growth of cartography parallels that of the coming of autobiography
rise of
Olearius multiplicity of roles
artist, geographer, historian, tourist, merchant, diplomat,
Olearius's production of self
mantle of artist is passed on to the author, who asserts himself and his new status in pictorial form
he stick to his calculations despite the criticism he receives from colleagues and friends
Olearius's scientific reticence (kam-guyi
he quotes (without attribution) Athanasius Kircher
therefore the waters were driven by a natural power through the hidden veins of the earth and rose up into the mountains, just as in a human being the blood rises from the liver to the heart and moves upward to the head through the vena cava.
...cartographic literature both reflected and brought about changing perceptions of the world
about Marco Polo
Gabriel
the shape-shifting Caspian sea
Olearius's travel account also seeks to be encyclopedic
...describe and judges the deviations from the European norm
barbarous
destruction of the body itself
Munster's final judgment
“
discourse of analogy
cartographic evidence
a book of others
the ways it fashions received information
“Ortelius's innovation in the science of cartography is that he attends less to the “big picture” of the world than to putting together an illustrated summery of possibly infinite number of fragmentary parts (Conley)
Blue Map of Persia
influence of Ptolemy on the early islamic cartographers, in the time of Ma'mun
system of Climes
(book of) notification
...pioneer on the road toward a (geographically) correct picture of Persia
_Persienbild_
“drawn from life”
the imagery and allegorical figures found on the frontispiece are learned signifiers belonging to a visual world that reflects and prefigures the verbal description that forms the body of the work
Olearius designs a brilliant visual program
visual table of contents
his nascent (dar tavalod
he translates both
traces of the author within the map
signs of the hidden power relation
depiction of the exotic “other”
patronage
naming
“es gab eine lustige perspective”
of note in this scene
the monarch's true nature is laid bare
“you see me from the outside, as a pleasant young man in years, but on the murderous interior i am a tyrant.”
the scene of Eastern opulence and decadence corresponds to a 17th century (or even 21st century) Westerner's conception of an Oriental court
oriental stage
he met another celebrated traveler, Ibn Haukul
Verran
(i found out
to recognize stories of entrepreneurship as stories of working relations between people, technology, and nature
(taking diagrams as involved only in) epistemic practices linking the mess of the actual and