The Fourth Part Of The World by Toby Lester
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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- 2009
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