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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 Fracanzano (da Montalboddo.) and published by . This book was released on 1507 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cum priuilegio  Paesi nouamente retrouati  et Nouo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio florentino intitulato

Download or read book Cum priuilegio Paesi nouamente retrouati et Nouo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio florentino intitulato written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: A history of earlier European exploration, including the voyages of Columbus and Vespucci. The volume quotes a number of letters, and focuses on trade, religion, and the civilisations encountered.

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 Paesi nouamenti retrouati

Download or read book Paesi nouamenti retrouati written by Fracanzano (da Montalboddo) and published by . This book was released on 1507 with total page 252 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 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 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: