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A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox (Inbunden)
avJohn W. Hessler
ISBN: 9781907804168 - UTGIVEN: 2013-02This new volume, and its accompanying microsite, is the first scholarly publication and English translation of the Schoner Sammelband, a collection of maps and notes made by the Nuremberg astronomer and mathematician Johannes Schoner (d. 1543), including the original World Maps made by Martin Waldse[...]
A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox & the Naming of America (Inbunden)
avJohn W. Hessler
ISBN: 9781907804175 - UTGIVEN: 201304'The Naming of America' features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemuller - the first map ever to display the name America - and tells the fascinating story behind its creation and rediscovery. It also includes a completely new translation and commentary to the 'Cosmographiae Introd[...]
