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Here begins the dark sea : Venice, a Medieval monk, and the creation of the most accurate map of the world

text Here begins the dark sea : Venice, a Medieval monk, and the creation of the most accurate map of the world

Small, Meredith F.

Summary
"In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamu... Read more
Contents
Introduction -- A sense of place: the human urge to draw geography -- Mapping the world before Fra Mauro -- The world of Fra Mauro -- Fra Mauro makes a map -- What Fra Mauro wanted to tell us about geography -- Peoples, goods, myths, and marvels: ... Read more
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Description
xvii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Publisher
Pegasus Books 2023
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 912.09 SMA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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