Description |
xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
America -- Maps -- History.
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America -- Name.
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Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519.
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World maps -- History.
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Cartography -- History.
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Voyages and travels -- History -- To 1500.
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Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500.
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Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
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Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
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Travelers' writings, European.
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ISBN |
9781416535317 |
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1416535314 |
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