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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

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This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way.


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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Publisher

: Springer International Publishing., 2020

Collation

VII, 150 hlm,: ill, lamp;

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030227036

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text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Historical Geography
Global and Transnational History

World History,
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography,

Specific Detail Info

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

Statement of Responsibility

Chet Van Duzer

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6

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