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- Provides the first transcriptions and translations to texts and place names on the Yale Martellus map, one of the most important of the fifteenth century
- Offers transcriptions and English translations of many of the previously-unstudied texts on Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map
- Highly illustrated and accompanied by online access to many more downloadable high-resolution multispectral images of the Martellus map, an essential resource for further study
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This first overall study of Martellus’s map provides new findings solidly established and focuses on the Martellus figure hitherto poorly known.” (Patrick Gautier Dalché, Aethiopica, Vol. 22, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
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David Rumsey Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, USA
Chet Van Duzer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Book Subtitle: Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
Authors: Chet Van Duzer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76840-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76839-7Published: 23 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08305-2Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76840-3Published: 03 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 208
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Geography, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, African History, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices