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The World Map, 1300--1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation (Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia)
The World Map 13001492 The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation - Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia
Author: Evelyn Edson
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 m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801885891
ISBN-10: 0801885892
Publication Date: 5/30/2007
Pages: 312
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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