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

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-22703-6

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This 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.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science / Historical Geography / Geographical Information / Systems / Cartography / World History, Global and Transnational History / Cultural Heritage / European History History of Cartography / Renaissance Studies/Martin Waldseemüller / Circulation of Knowledge / Iconography / Old Maps / Carta marina / Sixteenth century cartography / Waldseemuller Map / Renaissance cartography