Martin Waldseemüller¿s 'Carta marina' of 1516

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Chet Van Duzer is a Researcher in Residence at the John Carter Brown Library and a board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, which brings multispectral imaging to cultural institutions around the world. He has published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps; in 2018 his book Henricus Martellus¿s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence was published by Springer. His recent NEH-Mellon project at the Library of Congress was a study of the annotations in a heavily annotated copy of the 1525 edition of Ptolemy¿s Geography; and last year he completed a David Rumsey Research Fellowship at Stanford and the John Carter Brown Library studying Urbano Monte¿s manuscript world map of 1587. His current project is a book about cartographic cartouches.

Zusammenfassung

Provides the first complete transcription, translation, and commentary on all of the map's descriptive texts

Richly illustrated and accompanied by online access to high-resolution images of all of the sheets of the map

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to the Carta marina

1.1. Martin Waldseemüller and His Works

1.2. Comparing and Contrasting the 1507 and 1516 Maps

1.3. Waldseemüller¿s Textual Sources on the Carta marina

1.4. The Carta marina¿s Iconographical Program, and its Sources

1.5. The Development of Waldseemüller¿s Cartographic Thought

1.6. Evidence for the Diffusion of the Carta marina

2. Transcription, Translation, and Study of the Legends

Sheet 1. North America, Caribbean, North Atlantic

Sheet 2. Newfoundland and Europe

Sheet 3. Northern Asia

Sheet 4. Northeastern Asia

Sheet 5. Northern South America and the Caribbean

Sheet 6. Western Africa

Sheet 6A. Western Africa

Sheet 7. East Africa, the Red Sea, Arabia, and the Western Indian Ocean

Sheet 8. Southern India and Southeast Asia

Sheet 9. Cartouches in the Map¿s Southwest Corner

Sheet 10. Southern South America and the South Atlantic

Sheet 11. Southern Africa and the Southwestern Indian Ocean

Sheet 12. The Southern Indian Ocean

Details

Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	vii 150 S. 10 s/w Illustr. 45 farbige Illustr. 150 p. 55 illus. 45 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030227029
ISBN-10:	3030227022
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Duzer, Chet Van
Auflage:	1st ed. 2020
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	285 x 215 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Chet Van Duzer
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.10.2019
Gewicht:	0,708 kg

Artikel-ID: 116556524