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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Chet Van Duzer
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| #353209 in Books | imusti | 2014-09-01 | Original language:English | 9.50 x.50 x9.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | British Library||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fun read and educational|By T. Paris|Gives a concise history of maps, along with the origins and evolution of their accompanying monsters. Makes you wonder; where people just bad at accurately drawing animals before the 1700s, or did the explorers just not even try. A written description of an octopus ends up looking like a lobster on the map. I guess eight legs meant lobster||
“[B]eautifully illustrated. . . . People interested in maps, cryptozoology, folklore, and arcane zoology and zoological history will want to check it out.”
The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptio...
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