Abstract
List of illustrations Introduction Part I. The Invention of a Southern Continent: 1. Terra Australis in antiquity and the Middle Ages 2. Terra Australis in the early Renaissance 3. Java la Grande and Magellanica 4. Spanish vision of the Austral world: Medana, Quiros, Torres 5. Exotica in sixteenth century Spain 6. Art, science and exploration in Elizabethan England Part II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion (1606-1756): 7. The Dutch image of the Southland 8. Dutch Australian expeditions: 1606-36 9. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland (1636-45) 10. Art and the Dutch trading companies 11. The Great Southland and the republic of letters: Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) and his Kunstkammer 12. Epilogue Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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