The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius; (from Whom America Derived Its Name.)
Author: Andrew Foster
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Published: 1849
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Author: Andrew Foster
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Published: 1849
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Edwards Lester
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Waldseemüller
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemuller - the first map ever to display the name America - and tells the fascinating story behind its creation in 16th-century France and rediscovery 300 years later in the library of Wolfegg Castle, Germany, in 1901. It also includes a completely new translation and commentary to Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann's seminal cartographic text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, which originally accompanied the World Map. John Hessler considers answers to some of the key questions raised by the map's representation of the New World, including "How was it possible for a small group of cartographers to have produced a view of the world so radical for its time and so close to the one we recognize today?"; and "What evidence did they possess to show the existence of the Pacific Ocean when neither Vasco Nunez de Balboa nor Ferdinand Magellan had yet reached it'." There are no easy answers, and yet, as this fascinating book reveals, this group of unknowns created some of the most important maps in the history of cartography, and afford us a glimpse into an age when accepted scientific and geographic principles fell away, spawning the birth of modernity.
Author: Charles Edwards LESTER (and FOSTER (Andrew))
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Published: 1846
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 2011-02
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781891396915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2011 Reprint of the 1920 Edition. Illustrated by Cosgrove. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the actual log of Christopher Columbus as copied out by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas. Besides being authentic source material about the voyage and the core of the Columbus legend, this journal has all the day-by-day enchantment of a long sea voyage with all the drama of a small ship steering into the unknown-the first pelican, a crab in the seaweed, a branch of roseberries and a carved log found floating in the water, mutterings of mutiny and the constant watch for signs of land. John Cosgrove, the illustrator, adds to the book on every page with pictures of whales and riggings, compasses and charts, which are both decorative and accurate pictorial footnotes to the log.
Author: Charles Edwards Lester
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas More
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-04-08
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 8027303583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author: Philip Parker King
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 704
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amerigo Vespucci
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 136
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