Thinking in Islands; The Portuguese perception of the Indonesian archipelago and particularly of Sunda in early texts and charts
This article discusses various early sources on the Indonesian archipelago. It starts with the status of knowledge before the first voyage of the Portuguese to the Moluccas from accounts of travellers to insular Southeast Asia in the Middle Ages and the picture on world maps European cartographers p...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Indonesia
2012-10-01
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| Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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| Online Access: | http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/63 |