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European exploration after 1492 focused attention on the newly discovered but barely known regions on the far side of the earth, a New World where East became West. It was now possible to think beyond the "inhabited world" known since Antiquity and to consider the earth in global terms, resolving the earth into a spherical form viewable from more than one side. Contemporary Europeans asked, why is this revelation of the fulness of the earth happening in our times, and for us? Alexander Nagel explores the imagination of a "globality” that promised complete knowledge while framing it as a problem of point of view, a problem of image-making and image-viewing.