Age of Exploration
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Programmes2
The organisation that flew the missions, across years.
Ideas and conditions23
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Christopher Columbus
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
- Vasco da Gama
- Zheng He
- The transatlantic slave trade
- The Columbian Exchange
- The post-contact population collapse of the Americas
- The 1610 CO₂ minimum ("Orbis spike")
- The Atlantic wind and current system
- The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
- The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
- The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
- Mariner's astrolabe
- Caravel
- Carrack (nau)
- Celestial navigation (latitude sailing)
- Volta do mar (the return by sea)
- Maize (Zea mays)
- Pepper
- Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- Sugar