O MUNDO COMO ESPAÇO: MAPAS COMO REPRESENTAÇÕES QUE CONSTROEM E TRANSFORMAM O ENTORNO QUE PERCEBEMOS E OCUPAMOS

Abstract

The article deals with the emergence of the idea of ​​world as space and the function of maps in this process. The aim is to understand the physical environment we occupy from the concept of space (even the uninhabited, empty), and not by a concrete human occupation of the territory. Then it focuses on the historical project of rationalizing and scientifically regularizing the world we experience. In this context, the map plays an essential role, being the graphic representation that ratifies this worldview, while influences our interpretation of it. Thus, the paper proposes a brief historical approach on the consolidation of the concept of world as a space from the process of development of cartographic products.