Bibliography: leaves 242-255. / 256, [8] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / A study which examines medieval religious beliefs through a range of symbols found on medieval world maps and in geographical texts. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2000

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University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences. / Department of History

Almost two thousand years ago, Claudius Ptolemy created a guide to drawing maps of the world, identifying the names and coordinates of over 8,000 settlements and geographical features. Using the coordinates of those cities and landmarks which have been identified with modern locations, a series of best-fit transformations has been applied to several of Ptolemy’s regional maps, those of Britain, Spain, and Italy. The transformations relate Ptolemy’s coordinates to their modern equivalents by rotation and skewed scaling. These reflect the types of error that appear in Ptolemy’s data, namely those of distance and orientation. The mathematical techniques involved in this process are all modern. However, these techniques have been altered in order to deal with the historical difficulties of Ptolemy’s maps. To think of Ptolemy’s data as similar to that collected from a modern random sampling of a population and to apply unbiased statistical methods to it would be erroneous. Ptolemy’s data is biased, and the nature of that bias is going to be informed by the history of the data. Using such methods as cluster analysis, Procrustes analysis, and multidimensional scaling, we aimed to assess numerically the accuracy of Ptolemy’s maps. We also investigated the nature of the errors in the data and whether or not these could be linked to historical developments in the areas mapped.

Orientador: Leila Mezan Algranti / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T00:59:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Scarato_LucianeCrisitina_M.pdf: 7390033 bytes, checksum: 7d88f202a908214cca2fbaa26ede8cab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O tema central dessa dissertação de mestrado são os caminhos e as áreas fronteiriças das Minas Gerais Setecentistas, principalmente o Caminho Novo do Rio de Janeiro, o Caminho Velho de São Paulo e, ainda, o Distrito da Mantiqueira, no período que compreende os anos entre 1733 e 1783. Com essa pesquisa, espera-se identificar as principais vias de acesso à região mineradora nos mapas da época, comparando-os entre si para verificar a importância dos caminhos no povoamento e na formação da rede urbana da Capitania. Por meio da análise da administração de alguns governadores que passaram pelas Minas e de suas atitudes em relação à abertura de caminhos, principalmente os ilegais, então denominados "picadas", ver-se-á até que ponto os interesses da metrópole e dos colonos seriam ou não opostos. As condições de viagem das estradas e os perigos que os viajantes precisavam enfrentar durante a sua travessia também serão objeto de estudo. Finalmente, será estabelecido um perfil sócio-econômico dos habitantes dos caminhos e áreas vizinhas, através da análise de seus bens materiais. / Abstract: The central theme of this masters dissertation are the paths and border areas of Minas Gerais, mainly the Rio de Janeiro's new road, the São Paulo's old road and the Mantiqueira District, during the period between 1733 and 1783. With this research, we hope to identify the most important ways of accessing the miner area on historical maps, comparing them to verify the importance of paths for the population and formation of the Capitania's urban net. By analyzing the administration of some colonial Minas' governors and their attitudes towards the opening of roads, specially the illegal ones, called picadas, we will see up to which point metropolitans and settlers' interests were opposed among each other. The roads travelling conditions, as well as the dangers that men and women that walked by them had to deal with, will also be an object of study. Finally, we are going to establish a social-economical profile of the paths and their nearby's inhabitants, through the analysis of their material goods. / Mestrado / Historia Social / Mestre em História