[PDF.81hs] The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe

The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe

[PDF.xa63] The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe

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 | #2329547 in Books |  2003-07-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.44 x.90 x9.50l,1.41 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| fascinating information|By Customer|Well done. Interesting. This is a fantastic book about cartography and its context in history.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A stunning and visually exciting book|By Gene Rhea Tucker|Dr. Buisseret has written a stunning and visually exciting book. It is useful as a prim|From Publishers Weekly|Buisseret, professor of the history of cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington, intends this book to answer a simple question: "Why was it that there were so few maps in Europe in 1400, and yet so many by 1650?" One reason for

In 1400 Europe lagged far behind much of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and use of cartography. The Mapmakers' Quest illuminates the forces behind this development--not only to tease out the strands of thought and practice which led to the use of maps, but also to assess the w...

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