LDR
| 08354cam a22011414a 4500 |
---|
001 | 61827 |
---|
003 | HLC |
---|
005 | 20160617034957.0 |
---|
008 | 090113s2009 nyuab b 001 0deng |
---|
010 | | . |
‡a 2009001230 |
---|
019 | | . |
‡a298776898
‡a466370349
‡a502650208
‡a659933597
‡a790769892 |
---|
020 | | . |
‡a9781416535317 |
---|
020 | | . |
‡a1416535314 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aAU@
‡b000043792544 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aCDX
‡b9108918 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aDEBBG
‡bBV035625664 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aHEBIS
‡b216589223 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aIG#
‡b9781416535317 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aNZ1
‡b13108961 |
---|
029 | 1 | . |
‡aSE4M6
‡b100288596 |
---|
035 | | . |
‡a(OCoLC)300279775
‡z(OCoLC)298776898
‡z(OCoLC)466370349
‡z(OCoLC)502650208
‡z(OCoLC)659933597
‡z(OCoLC)790769892 |
---|
040 | | . |
‡aDLC
‡beng
‡cDLC
‡dIG#
‡dBRL
‡dABG
‡dJSU
‡dVP@
‡dMOF
‡dEXW
‡dHEBIS
‡dCDX
‡dYDXCP
‡dBTCTA
‡dBWX
‡dDEBBG
‡dTXTCP
‡dNSB
‡dSGB
‡dOCLCO
‡dOCLCF
‡dOCLCQ
‡dS3O
‡dOCLCO |
---|
043 | | . |
‡an------
‡as------
‡ae------ |
---|
049 | | . |
‡aXY8A |
---|
050 | 0 | 0. |
‡aE18.75
‡b.L47 2009 |
---|
082 | 0 | 0. |
‡a912.73
‡222 |
---|
084 | | . |
‡aRT 10217
‡2rvk |
---|
100 | 1 | . |
‡aLester, Toby. |
---|
245 | 1 | 4. |
‡aThe fourth part of the world :
‡bthe race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name /
‡cToby Lester. |
---|
250 | | . |
‡a1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
---|
260 | | . |
‡aNew York :
‡bFree Press,
‡c2009. |
---|
300 | | . |
‡axii, 462 pages :
‡billustrations, maps ;
‡c23 cm |
---|
336 | | . |
‡atext
‡btxt
‡2rdacontent |
---|
337 | | . |
‡aunmediated
‡bn
‡2rdamedia |
---|
338 | | . |
‡avolume
‡bnc
‡2rdacarrier |
---|
504 | | . |
‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index. |
---|
505 | 0 | . |
‡aAwakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; Through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; The Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld -- The way of the world -- Appendix. The Stevens-Brown map. |
---|
520 | | . |
‡aThis book, a chronicle of the early sixteenth century creation of the Waldseemuller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation. "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, Waldseemuller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemuller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus's contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemuller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci's honor they gave this New World a name: America. This is the story behind that map, a saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, the author traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In this telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe's early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemuller map that the Earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity's worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, this book tells the story of that map: the story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world. |
---|
600 | 1 | 0. |
‡aWaldseemüller, Martin,
‡d1470-1519. |
---|
600 | 1 | 0. |
‡aParis, Matthew,
‡d1200-1259. |
---|
600 | 1 | 0. |
‡aPolo, Marco,
‡d1254-1323? |
---|
600 | 1 | 7. |
‡aParis, Matthew,
‡d1200-1259.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst00018983 |
---|
600 | 1 | 7. |
‡aPolo, Marco,
‡d1254-1323?
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst00035719 |
---|
600 | 1 | 7. |
‡aWaldseemüller, Martin,
‡d1470-1519.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01773687 |
---|
600 | 1 | 7. |
‡aWaldseemüller, Martin,
‡d1470-1520.
‡0(DE-588)119353717
‡2gnd |
---|
600 | 1 | 7. |
‡aWaldseemüller, Martin.
‡2swd |
---|
600 | 0 | 7. |
‡aMatthaeus,
‡cParisiensis.
‡2swd |
---|
650 | | 0. |
‡aWorld maps
‡xHistory. |
---|
650 | | 0. |
‡aCartography
‡xHistory. |
---|
650 | | 0. |
‡aVoyages and travels
‡xHistory
‡yTo 1500. |
---|
650 | | 0. |
‡aDiscoveries in geography
‡xHistory
‡yTo 1500. |
---|
650 | | 0. |
‡aTravelers' writings, European. |
---|
650 | | 4. |
‡aWeltkarte
‡yGeschichte 1507. |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aCartography.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst00848025 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aDiscoveries in geography.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst00894950 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aMaps.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01008726 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aNames.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01032344 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aTravelers' writings, European.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01155740 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aVoyages and travels.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01169308 |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aWorld maps.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01181367 |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aEntdeckungsreise.
‡0(DE-588)4014842-7
‡2gnd |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aKarte.
‡0(DE-588)4029783-4
‡2gnd |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aKartographie.
‡0(DE-588)4029823-1
‡2gnd |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aWeltkarte.
‡0(DE-588)4065368-7
‡2gnd |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aEntstehung.
‡2swd |
---|
650 | 0 | 7. |
‡aHistorische Karte.
‡2swd |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aAmerica
‡xMaps
‡xHistory.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aAmerica
‡xName.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aWaldseemuller, Martin, 1470-1521?
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aWorld maps
‡xHistory.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aCartography
‡xHistory.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aVoyages and travels
‡xHistory
‡xTo 1500.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aDiscoreries in geography
‡xHistory
‡xTo 1500.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aParis, Matthew, 1200-1259.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aPolo, Marco, 1254-1323?
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aTravelers' writings, European.
‡2sears |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aVärldskartor
‡xhistoria.
‡2sao |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aKartografi
‡xHistoria.
‡2sao |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aReseskildringar
‡xhistoria
‡ytill 500.
‡2sao |
---|
650 | | 7. |
‡aEngelska reseskildringar.
‡2sao |
---|
651 | | 0. |
‡aAmerica
‡xName. |
---|
651 | | 0. |
‡aAmerica
‡xMaps
‡xHistory. |
---|
651 | | 4. |
‡aAmerika
‡xKarte. |
---|
651 | | 7. |
‡aAmerica.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01239786 |
---|
651 | | 7. |
‡aAmerika.
‡0(DE-588)4001670-5
‡2gnd |
---|
651 | | 7. |
‡aAmerika.
‡2swd |
---|
651 | | 7. |
‡aAmerika
‡xhistoria
‡vkartor.
‡2sao |
---|
655 | | 7. |
‡aHistory.
‡2fast
‡0(OCoLC)fst01411628 |
---|
938 | | . |
‡aBaker and Taylor
‡bBTCP
‡nBK0008027353 |
---|
938 | | . |
‡aCoutts Information Services
‡bCOUT
‡n9108918 |
---|
938 | | . |
‡aIngram
‡bINGR
‡n9781416535317 |
---|
938 | | . |
‡aYBP Library Services
‡bYANK
‡n2937487 |
---|
994 | | . |
‡aC0
‡bXY8 |
---|
905 | | . |
‡uagordon |
---|
901 | | . |
‡a61827
‡b
‡c61827
‡tbiblio
‡soclc |
---|