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- Provides the first complete transcription, translation, and commentary on all of the map’s descriptive texts
- Richly illustrated and accompanied by online access to high-resolution images of all of the sheets of the map
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In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations.
Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.
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Book Title: Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
Book Subtitle: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends
Authors: Chet Van Duzer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22702-9Published: 22 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22705-0Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22703-6Published: 09 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Geography, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural Heritage, European History