{"id":59,"date":"2021-04-22T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/de-centering\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:10:20","slug":"orientations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/orientations\/","title":{"rendered":"Orientations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maps point us toward things. Presenting a distilled image of the globe, they help us navigate the world. This section, \u201cOrientations,\u201d prompts us to examine how maps imagine the world and expose the biases of their creators and shed light on early modern worldviews. The first subsection, \u201cUniverses,\u201d reveals a primary goal of mapmaking: illustrating the entire cosmos. Unlike contemporary science, early modern cartography presents a unified depiction of Earth and Heaven. This sense of continuity echoes through both pictorial and textual elements of these maps. The second subsection, \u201cEdges,\u201d explores where maps begin and end, creating defined borders in space where none may exist in real life. Ordering lands and waters through newly developed mathematical and scientific tools, maps frame the world from particular points of view, reflecting how people vie for cultural and political power.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2021\/05\/separator-1024x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2021\/05\/separator-1024x94.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2021\/05\/separator-300x28.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2021\/05\/separator-768x71.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2021\/05\/separator.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps point us toward things. Presenting a distilled image of the globe, they help us navigate the world. This section, \u201cOrientations,\u201d prompts us to examine how maps imagine the world and expose the biases of their creators and shed light on early modern worldviews. The first subsection, \u201cUniverses,\u201d reveals a primary goal of mapmaking: illustrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/multiple-middles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}