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Facsimile-atlas to the early history of cartography, with reproductions of the most important maps printed in the XV and XVI centuries, [by] A.E. Nordenskiöld. Translated from the Swedish original by Johan Adolf Ekelöf and Clements R. Markham. With a new introd. by J.B. Post

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Facsimile-atlas to the early history of cartography, with reproductions of the most important maps printed in the XV and XVI centuries, [by] A.E. Nordenskiöld. Translated from the Swedish original by Johan Adolf Ekelöf and Clements R. Markham. With a new introd. by J.B. Post

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eng

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atlas

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Facsimile-atlas to the early history of cartography

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959764

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[by] A.E. Nordenskiöld. Translated from the Swedish original by Johan Adolf Ekelöf and Clements R. Markham. With a new introd. by J.B. Post

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with reproductions of the most important maps printed in the XV and XVI centuries

Table Of Contents

The geographical atlas of Ptolemy -- Editions of Ptolemy's geography -- Pseuo-editions of Ptolemy: Ptolemy's errors and merits -- Ancient, not Ptolemaic maps -- Extension of Ptolemy's Oikumene towards the north and north-west -- The first maps of the New World, and of the newly discovered parts of Africa and Asia -- Terrestrial globes from the 15th and the first part of the 16th century -- Map-projections -- The end of the early period of cartography, 1520-1550 -- The transition to, and the beginning of the modern period: Jacopo Gastaldi, Philip Apianus, Abraham Ortelius, Gerard Mercator

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