Mapping Atlantis: Olof Rudbeck and the Use of Maps in Early Modern Scholarship

This article merges the history of maps with new research on scholarship, showcasing how the use of maps significantly shaped early modern knowledge. More specifically, the article examines the scholarly practices of the seventeenth-century Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who thought he had discovere...

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Published inJournal of the history of ideas Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 207 - 231
Main Author Forss, Charlotta
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Pennsylvania Press 01.04.2023
Subjects
17th century
Atlantis
Cartography
environment
Fellowships and Scholarships
Geography
Gothicism
History
history and geography
history of cartography
history of knowledge
history of maps and mapping
history of note-taking
Knowledge
Mapping
Note taking
Research methodology
Scandinavia
scholarly practices
Sweden
Sweden
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Summary:This article merges the history of maps with new research on scholarship, showcasing how the use of maps significantly shaped early modern knowledge. More specifically, the article examines the scholarly practices of the seventeenth-century Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who thought he had discovered Atlantis. The article identifies four areas of particular importance, highlighting how maps facilitated a conflation of history and geography for Rudbeck, how he tied information to geographical places through note-taking on maps, how access to maps shaped his research interests, and how he used maps to construct credible arguments.
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ISSN:0022-5037
1086-3222
1086-3222
DOI:10.1353/jhi.2023.0010