The world map, 1300-1492 : the persistence of tradition and transformation /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore : Sante Fe, New Mexico :
Johns Hopkins University Press ; Published in association with the Center for American Places,
2007.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.