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Book Paesi nouamente retrouati  Et nouo mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato

Download or read book Paesi nouamente retrouati Et nouo mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato written by Ca'Zeno, Enrico di & Ca'Zeno, Giovanni Maria di and published by . This book was released on 1507 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books

Download or read book A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Overcoming Ptolemy

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  • Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-10-15
  • ISBN : 1498590144
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Overcoming Ptolemy written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This is all the more important when we consider the longevity of the Ptolemaic construct through and beyond the European age of discovery allowing as well for its eventual revision or refinement. Innovations in navigational science, cartographic representations, and textual description are all called upon to illustrate this theme. With its focus upon the macro-region termed India Extra Gangem, literally the space between India and China, the book unfolds a fourfold agenda. First, it explains the Ptolemaic world system back to classical points of reference as well as to its reception in late medieval Europe from Arabic sources. Second, it tracks the erosion of the Ptolemaic template especially in the light of new empirical data entering Europe from early travel accounts as well as the first voyages of discovery. Third, through selected examples, as with India, Southeast Asia, and China, it seeks to expose textual and cartographic adjustments to the classical models flowing from the scientific revolution.Fourth, through an examination of Jesuit astronomical observations conducted at various points in Asia, it demonstrates how Eurasia was actually measured and sized with respect to its true longitudinal coordinates such had deluded Columbus and even succeeding generations. In short, this work problematizes the creation of geographical knowledge, raises awareness as to the making of region in Asia over long historical time—the Ptolemaic world-in-motion—and, as a more latent agenda, sounds an alert as to the perils of overdetermination in the setting of modern boundaries whether upon land or sea.

Book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Pacific States of North America  Central America  1882 87

Download or read book History of the Pacific States of North America Central America 1882 87 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martin Waldseem  ller   s  Carta marina  of 1516

Download or read book Martin Waldseem ller 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 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.

Book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft  History of Central America  1882 87

Download or read book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft History of Central America 1882 87 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York written by Robert Hoe and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber  Esq  Part the Sixth  Removed from Pimlico and Oxford  Which Will be Sold by Auction  by Mr  Evans  at His House  No  93  Pall Mall  On Monday       and Nineteen Following Days  Sundays Excepted    To be Viewed on Thursday  Friday and Saturday Previous to the Sale   Each Day s Sale Will Commence at Half past Twelve Precisely

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber Esq Part the Sixth Removed from Pimlico and Oxford Which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr Evans at His House No 93 Pall Mall On Monday and Nineteen Following Days Sundays Excepted To be Viewed on Thursday Friday and Saturday Previous to the Sale Each Day s Sale Will Commence at Half past Twelve Precisely written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Heberiana  Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber  Esq      which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs  Sotheby and Son  at Their House  Wellington street  Strand  on Thursday  April 10  and Twenty five Following Days

Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber Esq which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby and Son at Their House Wellington street Strand on Thursday April 10 and Twenty five Following Days written by Sotheby's (London) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber  Esq

Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber Esq written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: