HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nicolaus Copernicus, Deferent And Epicycle, Ethnography
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Importance of sugar, potato: there is the new that people are consuming. Pineapple comes into europe people become fascinated with the pineapple: medical theories that it is special, new fruit but it is called pineapple looks like a piney apple, pinecone shape, working by analogy. Shape looks like a pinecone but the flavor is similar to that of an. Natives are being brutalized and look ugly and deformed: emphasis on the grotesqueness of the situation. Shape of the body and form are conventions of greek sculpture: when going to the new world we are going back in time. People in the new world are like pre-classical civilizations. New people of the new world are not new at all: indigenous people are some of the lost tribes of israel, struggling to keep some of the most important authorities, new things are scary things. Very troubling to every form of authority. Cartography: have sea monsters on the map.
