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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

Author
Lester, Toby
Published
New York, NY : Free Press, 2009.
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Description
xii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

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Contents
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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9781416535317
1416535314
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index.
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