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Geography & Domestic Recreation in Early Modern Europe

Library Of Congress

Education

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This lecture explores how world geography shifted from professional knowledge to general interest in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, looking in particular at domestic activities designed to encourage the collection and memorization of geography by non-professionals, including coloring maps and botanical texts and recipes for colors; interactive prints and games; and geographic memorization cards. Beyond an educational pastime, these activities neatly divided the globe into the familiar continental structure of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; categorizing various human communities into "useful" comparative frameworks. Based on research conducted on Library collection items and in the optical properties laboratory of the Library's Preservation Directorate, using Hyper-Spectral Imaging (HSI) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) to identify pigments on printed cartographic images, providing information as to the availability of materials Europeans found necessary for such geographic pastimes.

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