Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1995 - 6/30/1996

Funding Totals

$78,000.00 (approved)
$77,969.57 (awarded)


INVENTIO FORTUNATA and Polar Cartography, 1360-1700

FAIN: RH-21294-95

Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ 86011-0001)
Delno C. West (Project Director: November 1994 to December 1996)

To support a study of how a largely symbolic representation of the earth's north polar region written in 1360 came to be accepted by Renaissance cartogra-phers as scientific knowledge and persisted on maps until the 17th century.