The fourth part of the world : the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name / Toby Lester.
2009
E18.75 .L47 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The fourth part of the world : the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name / Toby Lester.
Author
Lester, Toby.
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
ISBN
9781416535317
1416535314
1416535314
Imprint
New York : Free Press, 2009
Language
English
Description
xii, 462 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E18.75 .L47 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
912.73
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.