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.
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Lester, Toby. (författare)
- ISBN 9781416535317
- Publicerad: New York : Free Press, 2009
- Engelska xii, 462 p.
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Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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))
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