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005 20091031102649.0
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010 2009001230
020 9781416535317
020 1416535314
035 (Sirsi) i9781416535317
035 (OCoLC)300279775
035 (Sirsi) i9781416535317
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050 00 E18.75|b.L47 2009
082 00 912.73|222
100 1 Lester, Toby.
245 14 The fourth part of the world :|bthe race to the ends of
the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America
its name /|cToby Lester.
264 1 New York :|bFree Press,|c2009.
300 xii, 462 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and
index.
505 0 Part One: Old world: Matthew's maps -- Scourge of God --
The description of the world -- Through the ocean sea --
Seeing is believing -- Part Two: New world: Rediscovery --
Ptolemy the wise -- The Florentine perspective -- Terrae
incognitae -- Into African climes -- The learned men --
Cape of storms -- Colombo -- The admiral -- Christ-bearer
-- Amerigo -- Part Three: The whold world: Gymnasium --
World without end -- Afterword -- Epilogue: The way of the
world -- Appendix: The Stevens-Brown map.
520 A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the
Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks,
classicists, merchants, and other contributors from
earlier periods shaped the map's creation.
600 10 Waldseemüller, Martin,|d1470-1519.
600 10 Paris, Matthew,|d1200-1259.
600 10 Polo, Marco,|d1254-1323?
650 0 World maps|xHistory.
650 0 Cartography|xHistory.
650 0 Voyages and travels|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Discoveries in geography|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Travelers' writings, European.
651 0 America|vMaps|xHistory.
651 0 America|xName.
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856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
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856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
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