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.

• 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.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Engelska reseskildringar  (sao)

Discoveries in geography  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Världskartor  -- historia (sao)

Kartografi  -- Historia (sao)

Reseskildringar  -- historia -- till 500 (sao)

Travelers' writings, English  (LCSH)

America  -- Name. (LCSH)

Amerika  -- historia (sao)

Genre

Kartor  (saogf)

Personnamn

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?

Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

Polo, Marco, 1254-1324

Klassifikation

E18.75 (LCC)

912.73 (DDC)

N(ya) (kssb/8 (machine generated))