The world map, 1300-1492 : the persistence of tradition and transformation /

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Autor Principal: Edson, Evelyn (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Sante Fe, New Mexico : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Published in association with the Center for American Places, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Andrea Bianco's three maps
  • The world view of the mappamundi in the thirteenth century
  • Marine charts and sailing directions
  • Sea chart and mappamundi in the fourteenth century
  • Merchants, missionaries, and travel writers
  • The recovery of Ptolemy's Geography
  • Fra Mauro : the debate on the map
  • The persistence of tradition in fifteenth-century world maps
  • The transformation of the world map
  • Conclusion : The world map transformed.