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Geografia imaginária
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O principal legado geográfico dos Descobrimentos consistirá na cartografia da generalidade das terras emersas, de acordo com um processo que está concluído antes do termo da primeira metade do século XVI. Este mesmo processo resultou na afirmação do espaço real e mensurável, o qual tanto desmentiu pelos factos os limites práticos e teóricos que os Antigos haviam colocado à exploração da realidade terreste, como revogou a forma como a teologia cristã ocidental pensara o mundo. Ainda assim, estamos longe de nos encontrar em presença do triunfo instantâneo da geografia “positiva”. De facto, não apenas o novo saber objectivo e laico conviveu longamente com representações míticas ou imaginárias dos espaços terrestres, como sabemos que um dos principais motores das viagens de exploração e descoberta – e, portanto, do próprio progresso geográfico – assentou no gosto pelo maravilhoso e na busca de objectos ou destinos mais ou menos quiméricos.
The main geographical legacy of the Discoveries will consist of the cartography of most of the emerged lands, according to a process that was concluded before the end of the first half of the 16th century. This same process evolved in the affirmation of real and measurable space, which both denied the practical and theoretical limits that the Ancients had placed on the exploration of terrestrial reality, and revoked the way Western Christian theology had thought of the world. Even so, we are far from finding ourselves in the presence of the instantaneous triumph of “positive” geography. In fact, not only did the new objective and secular knowledge coexist for a long time with mythical or imaginary representations of terrestrial spaces, but we also know that one of the main drivers of voyages of exploration and discovery – and, therefore, of geographical progress itself – was based on the taste for the marvelous, and in the search for more or less chimerical objects or destinations.
The main geographical legacy of the Discoveries will consist of the cartography of most of the emerged lands, according to a process that was concluded before the end of the first half of the 16th century. This same process evolved in the affirmation of real and measurable space, which both denied the practical and theoretical limits that the Ancients had placed on the exploration of terrestrial reality, and revoked the way Western Christian theology had thought of the world. Even so, we are far from finding ourselves in the presence of the instantaneous triumph of “positive” geography. In fact, not only did the new objective and secular knowledge coexist for a long time with mythical or imaginary representations of terrestrial spaces, but we also know that one of the main drivers of voyages of exploration and discovery – and, therefore, of geographical progress itself – was based on the taste for the marvelous, and in the search for more or less chimerical objects or destinations.
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Geografia imaginária Geografia do Renascimento História da cartografia Expansão portuguesa Literatura de viagens
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Oliveira, F. R. de. (2016). Geografia imaginária. In F. C. Domingues (Ed.), Dicionário da Expansão Portuguesa 1415-1600, Vol. 1 (pp. 438-444). Círculo de Leitores. ISBN: 978-972-42-5083-0