Sea Spots: Perzeption und Repräsentation maritimer Räume im Kontext englischer und niederländischer Explorationen um 1600

In the period around 1600, the rising naval powers England and Netherlands made expeditions into distant waters of the Arctic and the South Seas or tried to sail around the world via Magellan Strait. Sea and ship became contact zones as well as places of imagination and knowledge production. The exploration runs of the European maritime powers around 1600 produced a wealth of texts, images and cartographic works, in which the experience and perception of the sealed areas and ideas about it were processed. In her book, the author argues that not only were terrestrial and insular destinations of travel recorded and recorded,