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| Named Person: | Martin Waldseemüller; Matthew Paris; Marco Polo |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Toby Lester |
| ISBN: | 9781416535317 1416535314 |
| OCLC Number: | 300279775 |
| Description: | xii, 442 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- 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 -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld -- The way of the world -- Appendix. The Stevens-Brown map. |
| Responsibility: | Toby Lester. |
| More information: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Sample text |
Abstract:
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.
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