The Mapmaker's Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe by David Buisseret

The Mapmaker's Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe

David Buisseret

256 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 p...

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