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Antipodes to Terra Australis
Avan Stallard (2010). Antipodes to Terra Australis PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland.
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Antipodes to Terra Australis thesis abstract
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Antipodes to Terra Australis final thesis
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| Author
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Avan Stallard
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| Thesis Title
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Antipodes to Terra Australis
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| School, Centre or Institute
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School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics
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| Institution
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The University of Queensland
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| Publication date
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2010-12
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| Thesis type
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PhD Thesis
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| Supervisor
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Marion Diamond
Martin Crotty
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| Total pages
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379
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| Total colour pages
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64
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| Total black and white pages
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315
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| Subjects
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21 History and Archaeology
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| Abstract/Summary
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The idea of an imaginary southern continent persisted in European discourse for two millennia in an unbroken chain of scholarship stretching from antiquity to the cusp of modern times. The unavoidable question is what drove belief, and what compelled people to persist with the notion of a southern continent even when faced with falsifying evidence? In addressing this question I attempt to draw the historical traces together in a way that not only illuminates what people thought and what actions came from those beliefs, but also suggests how belief, desire and expectation structured the interpretation and reception of geographical data. Misconceptions about the role that theories of hemispheric balance played in the discourse of a southern continent have long obscured the more complicated interplay of geographical lore and empirical discovery with the imperial and commercial milieus of early modern Europe. To say that people believed and held onto their belief in a
southern continent because they wanted it to exist is to answer the basic question addressed to all imaginative geographies – why did people believe in something that does not exist? Where I attempt to go further is in showing exactly how desire and expectation structured the entire discourse as it evolved across the centuries.
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| Keyword
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Antipodes
Terra Australis
southern continent
equipoisure
symmetry
imaginative geography
historical cartography
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Colour Pages: 27, 43, 51, 53, 56, 69, 70, 86, 88, 94, 95, 99, 101, 105, 107, 110, 111, 113, 124, 128, 130, 131, 133, 135, 137, 141, 143, 144, 146, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 158, 175, 206, 209, 211, 213, 232, 236, 237, 240, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 253, 272, 274, 276, 278, 280, 297, 302, 305, 375, 376, 378. Landscape Pages: 51, 69, 70, 86, 88, 94, 95, 99, 107, 109, 110, 113, 130, 137, 141, 143, 144, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 158, 175, 209, 232, 236, 240, 244, 246, 247, 272, 278, 280, 297.
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