Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends by Chet Van Duzer
English | EPUB | 2019 | 155 Pages | ISBN : 3030227022 | 99.2 MB
This 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.
