Cover
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Water?
1. Athens and Jerusalem on Water
Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts of c.1000–1600
2. Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts
3. Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts
4. Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts
Fig. 1: Diagrammatic T-O map in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies (Etymologiae, last quarter of eleventh century), British Library Royal 6 C l, fol. 108v. © British Library Board/Robana/Art Resource, New York.
Fig. 2: Zonal map in Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (De somno Scipionis, Paris: Giovanni Rivio, 1515). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Fig. 3: Untitled world map in the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (Cosmographia, edited by Nicolaus Germanus, Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482). Courtesy of the Newberry Library.
Fig. 4: The world map in the 1513 Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (“Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionam,” in Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematicae discipline philosophi doctissimi Geographiae opus, edited by Martin
Fig. 6: The world map in the 1561 Viennese Italian vernacular edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (“Orbis descriptio,” in Girolamo Ruscelli, La geograpfia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi). Courtesy of the Newberry Library.
Fig. 8: The world map from Rumold and Gerard Mercator’s Atlas (“Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio,” in Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, Duisberg, 1595). Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Fig. 9: World map in Martin Waldseemüller’s Universal Cosmography of 1507 (Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptolemaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes, St.-Dié). Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Fig. 10: Detail of the world map in Martin Waldseemüller’s Universal Cosmography of 1507 (Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptolemaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes, St. Dié). Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map
Part II: Why Water
5. Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts
6. Exploring the Created Universe through Water
7. Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship
Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis
General Bibliography
Index