Mapping the Renaissance World - The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery

• This is an original and engaging account of the ways in which the discovery of the new world altered the world-view of Europeans during the Renaissance
• The author is one of the best young historians in France today.

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Summary

* This is an original and engaging account of the ways in which the discovery of the new world altered the world-view of Europeans during the Renaissance* The author is one of the best young historians in France today. .

Product details

• Authors: Frank Lestringant, LESTRINGANT, Frank Lestringant, Frank (University of Lille III Lestringant, Lestringant Frank
• Assisted by: Stephen Greenblatt (Foreword)
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.1994
• EAN: 9780745611471
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-1147-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Biography: general, Brazil, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, Cartography, map-making & projections, Geographical discovery and exploration, Cartography, map-making and projections, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Biography: adventurers and explorers