TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Duzer, Chet
AB  - This open access 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. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-22703-6
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1007297
KW  - Geography
KW  - Historical geography
KW  - Geographical information systems
KW  - World history
KW  - Cultural heritage
KW  - Europe—History
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f422fd94-22ae-4968-ab92-281a34463564/1007297.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22864
PB  - Springer Nature
PP  - Cham
PY  - 2020
TI  - Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcription of the Long Legends
ER  - 
