The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation

by Evelyn Edson

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In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300-1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. She finds that both the makers and users of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801885892

ISBN13:9780801885891

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.6" x 9.4"

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Engineering History Technology Travel

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