Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of traveling missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. This engaging and informative study reveals how the ingenuity, creativity, and adaptability of mapmakers before the Renaissance helped pave the way for an age of discovery.
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