Author: Robert Proctor
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Category : Antwerp (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Ernst Crous
Publisher: London : Grafton
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: John Crerar Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Henry Robert Plomer
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1024

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Author: Harold John Cook
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643902468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" confounds communication. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. This book examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science. Situated at the border of the Germanic and Romance languages, home to a highly educated population, the Low Countries fostered multilingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 3)

Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028

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Author: Chet Van Duzer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030227030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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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.

Author: George Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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