Here begins the dark sea : Venice, a medieval monk, and the creation of the most accurate map of the world /
In 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 th...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A sense of place: the human urge to draw geography
- Mapping the world before Fra Mauro
- The world of Fra Mauro
- Fra Mauro makes a map
- What Fra Mauro wanted to tell us about geography
- Peoples, goods, myths, and marvels: lessons from Fra Mauro
- The consequences of Fra Mauro's map
- Why world maps still matter.