Toby Lester
American writer and journalist, author of The Fourth Part of the World and Da Vinci's Ghost, known for works on the history of cartography and Renaissance art and science.
Books
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1. The Fourth Part Of The World
A richly told history of how Europeans came to redraw the world after 15th-century voyages, tracing the intellectual and technological forces — from ancient Ptolemaic maps and Renaissance geography to the voyages of Columbus and Vespucci and the innovations of woodcut and printing — that transformed scattered reports into a new global map. It follows the scholars, explorers and mapmakers whose debates and ambitions produced the first charts to depict the Americas as a distinct “fourth part” of the world, showing how cartography shaped empire, identity and the modern imagination.
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