Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
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Total Pages : 155
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Download or read book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.

Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
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ISBN-13 : 9783030227050
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Download or read book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.

Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta Marina' of 1516

Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta Marina' of 1516
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Total Pages : 154
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Download or read book Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta Marina' of 1516 written by Chet Van Duzer and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can't be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller's radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Seeing the World Anew

Seeing the World Anew
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Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 192915447X
ISBN-13 : 9781929154470
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The Journal of the Polynesian Society

The Journal of the Polynesian Society
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Total Pages : 380
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Book Synopsis The Journal of the Polynesian Society by : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

The Discoveries of the Norsemen on the Northeast Coast of America

The Discoveries of the Norsemen on the Northeast Coast of America
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Total Pages : 42
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The Lore of the Whare-wānanga

The Lore of the Whare-wānanga
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Total Pages : 307
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Download or read book The Lore of the Whare-wānanga written by H. T. Whatahoro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Maori traditions, dictated by elders in the 1850s, was published with an English translation in 1913-15.