
Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Mapping during the Middle Ages
- 1. The influence of ancient Greece and Rome
- 2. The painterly origins of some European mapping, 1420-1650
- 3. Cartography among the ruling European elites, 1450-1650
- 4. Mapping in the expansion of Europe, 1400-1700
- 5. The maps drawn during the Military Revolution, 1500-1800
- 6. Mapping countryside and town in the new economies, 1570-1800
- Conclusion: The accelerating use of maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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