Last week we talked about the chaotic opening scene of The Tempest as a representation of the educational process. I’ll suggest a different, and perhaps more palatable, image this week. The Mariner’s Mirror was a Dutch atlas translated into English in the late Elizabethan period, in order to advance English navigation and cartography. The Folger copy was hand-colored at some later date —
For some more information on the Mirror, you can look at the entry in the Lost at Sea website
and also listen to my 90-second description of it on the Audio tour
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