"Terra Incognita? Verisimilitude in the cartographic representation of the unknown"

CARLA LOIS

Berlín

Workshop; Early/Modern/Art/Science/Art Image Knowledge Gestaltung; 2018

Cluster of Excellence Humboldt-Universitët

My presentation here is part of a larger project focused on mapping the unknown. What is the unknown? Well, everything and nothing. Four my purposes here, t he unknown is understood in three ways:- as the verosimile (which means something that does not necessarily exist or existed but that is plausible according to an epistemological or cosmographical framework.- the barely explored (the most common idea about something unknown is).- the non- visible (not the invisible) things that can not be seen for their own nature (as the ocean floor)