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The fourth part of the world : the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name / Toby Lester.

by Lester, Toby.

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New York, NY : Free Press, 2009.

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?

Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?

World maps -- History.

Cartography -- History.

Voyages and travels -- History -- To 1500.

Discoveries in geography -- History -- To 1500.

Travelers' writings, European.

America -- Maps -- History.

America -- Name.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009001230-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009001230-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0917/2009001230-s.html

9781416535317 :

xii, 462 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld -- The way of the world -- Appendix. The Stevens-Brown map.

A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation.

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