The monograph is devoted to the peculiarities of the perception of space and approaches to its representation in Russia and England of the XVI-XIX centuries. On the basis of extensive cartographic and travelographic material, the transformations that occurred in the perception of space during the New Age are traced. The application of an interdisciplinary approach and the inclusion in the research apparatus of developments from the field of the history of science, metageography and metalinguistics made it possible to formulate an original concept for the development of receptively representative strategies in an era of change, when the natural-scientific and socio-political categories of space were closely intertwined with each other.