La fabriqe de l'ocâean Indien : cartes d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquitâe-XVIe siáecle) /under the direction of Emmanuelle Vagnon and âEric Vallet.

"Richly illustrated, this book invites us on a journey through more than twenty centuries of cartography, where we discover how the Indian Ocean has been imagined and represented, in the East and the West, from the first Babylonian maps to the planispheres of the end of the sixteenth century. It does not merely describe the emergence of modern cartography from the 16th century European navigations; it also considers the knowledge coming from the great areas of the Old World, from the Far East to Europe, through the worlds of Islam, to contrast different points of view and explore common approaches that, beyond geographical and cultural distances, have shaped a progressively unified image of this space. Through the observation of the traces, names and illustrations on numerous documents - maps, regional maps, globes and planispheres - constructed on several scales, the reader is thus invited to go through and discover the multiple representations of a vast maritime space common to several cultures."--Provided by the publisher.