Meredith Francesca Small - Here Begins the Dark Sea Venice, a M
| Schrijver: | Meredith Francesca Small |
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| Titel: | Here Begins the Dark Sea Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World |
| ISBN: | 9781639364190 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Pegasus Books |
| Bijzonderheden: | Ramsj, 2023, Hardcover, 320p |
| Prijs: | € 16,95 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world.\nIn 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water and land as they really existed. Fra Mauro's map was the first in history to show that a ship could circumnavigate Africa, and that the Indian “Sea” was in fact an ocean, enabling international trade to expand across the globe. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith F. Small reveals how Fra Mauro’s mappamundi made cartography into a science rather than a practice based on religion and ancient myths.
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