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(5) | None | Look back to when the Americas were still the "New World", and mapmaking was still a fine art. Now available and in print at less than half its previous price, this oversized, painstakingly compiled classic collection of early printed maps from 1472 to 1700 portrays a revolution in progress. As explorers arrived in lands formerly unknown to Europe, and returned home with accounts of their travels, cartography changed to reflect new ideas. Over 600 examples in both color and black and white, range from the simple to the highly decorative. Isidore of Seville's 1472 small woodcut map -- the first ever printed -- portrays the world in miniature, with continents represented only in words. Hans Rust's elaborate medieval map (c. 1480), by contrast, has labels, scrolls, and dozens of small drawings. Francesco Rosselli's map, made roughly in 1508, already incorporates the Americas. A section of charts provides information on cartographic developments in a glance.… (more) |
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'Some, to beautify their Halls, Parlors, Chambers, Galeries, Studies, or Libraries...liketh, loveth, getteth, and useth, Maps, Charts, and Geographicall globes.' John Dee  | |
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A small circular woodcut, diagrammatically representing the whole world, is the first map ever printed. Isidore of Seville, in whose work the map appears, was a seventh-century bishop who compiled a kind of encyclopedia based extensively on classical authors. Many manuscript versions are extant prior to the first printed edition in 1472 with four woodcut diagrams. | |
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As Georgraphy without History seemeth as carkasse without motion, so History without Geography wandereth as vagrant without a certaine habitation. John Smith | |
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Zurner's striking map was sometimes included in copies of Pieter Schenk's Atlas Contractus which was published from c.1700. It is later to be found in the eighteenth-century atlases of R. & I. Ottens and may have been published separately as well. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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▾Book descriptions Look back to when the Americas were still the "New World", and mapmaking was still a fine art. Now available and in print at less than half its previous price, this oversized, painstakingly compiled classic collection of early printed maps from 1472 to 1700 portrays a revolution in progress. As explorers arrived in lands formerly unknown to Europe, and returned home with accounts of their travels, cartography changed to reflect new ideas. Over 600 examples in both color and black and white, range from the simple to the highly decorative. Isidore of Seville's 1472 small woodcut map -- the first ever printed -- portrays the world in miniature, with continents represented only in words. Hans Rust's elaborate medieval map (c. 1480), by contrast, has labels, scrolls, and dozens of small drawings. Francesco Rosselli's map, made roughly in 1508, already incorporates the Americas. A section of charts provides information on cartographic developments in a glance. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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From Foreword: "In the ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY the Oxford philosopher and physician Robert Burton recommended the contemplation of maps as one of the best forms of recreation."