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Book Toscanelli and Columbus

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  • Author : Henry Vignaud
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN : 5880419924
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Toscanelli and Columbus written by Henry Vignaud and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1903 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henricus Martellus   s World Map at Yale  c  1491

Download or read book Henricus Martellus s World Map at Yale c 1491 written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.

Book The Catholic Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles George Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Encyclopedia

Download or read book Catholic Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among Our Books

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  • Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dial

Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia written by Silvio A. Beding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European discovery of the Americas in 1492 was one of the most important events of the Renaissance, and with it Christopher Columbus changed the course of world history. Now, five hundred years later, this 2-volume reference work will chart new courses in the study and understanding of Columbus and the Age of Discovery. Much more than an account of the man and his voyages, The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia is a complete A-Z look at the world during this momentous era. In two volumes, The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia contains more than 350 signed original articles ranging from 250 to more than 10,000 words, written by nearly 150 contributors from around the world. The work includes cross-references, bibliographies for each article, and a comprehensive index. The work is fully illustrated, with hundreds of maps, drawings and photographs.

Book Christopher Columbus  His Life  His Works  His Remains

Download or read book Christopher Columbus His Life His Works His Remains written by John Boyd Thacher and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christopher Columbus  His Life  His Work  His Remains

Download or read book Christopher Columbus His Life His Work His Remains written by John Boyd Thacher and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Christopher Columbus

Download or read book Life of Christopher Columbus written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mapmakers

Download or read book The Mapmakers written by John Noble Wilford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, through to the expeditions of Columbus and Magellan, John Noble Wilford chronicles the exploits of the great pioneers of mapmaking. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers—including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West—whose achievements shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity.

Book Voices of the Renaissance

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  • Author : John A. Wagner
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2022-02-04
  • ISBN : 1440876045
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Voices of the Renaissance written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms. Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning "rebirth." The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era.

Book Framing the World

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  • Author : Margaret Small
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1783275200
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Framing the World written by Margaret Small and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory.

Book A History of the United States

Download or read book A History of the United States written by Edward Channing and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume, on the Civil War Era, of Harvard historian Edward Channing's 'Great Work, ' A History of the United States, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925. Unfortunately, the series went out of print some years ago. This new volume makes the essence of Channing's history available to a new generation of readers by reprinting highlights from each volume. Davis D. Joyce has written an extensive introduction which places Channing and his work in perspective in American historiography. Contents: I. The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660; II. A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760; III. The American Revolution, 1761-1789; IV. Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815; V. The Period of Transition, 1815-1848; VI. The War for Southern Independence.