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THIS useful, brightly-written and well-illustrated summary of the geographical progress of Christendom, from the beginning of the Middle Ages, is divided into twelve parts, of which the first eight deal with the pre-Columbian time and the last four with the great age of discovery, from Columbus to Magellan. Among the twenty illustrations are four reproductions of early mediaeval maps, from Miller and Beazley, one of Carignano's Portolano of 1300, one of Fra Mauro's map of 1459, one of a section of Juan de la Cosa's chart of 1500, one of the Strassburg Ptolemy of 1513, and one of the 1529 mappe-monde of Diego Ribero. Most of the latter are reproduced from Ruge's “Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen.” In its text the present work is also mainly based, for its later chapters, upon the same and other works of Ruge's, as well as upon Kretschmer's “Entdeckung Amerikas,” Nordenskjold's “Facsimile Atlas,” Harrisse's “Christophe Colomb” and other studies, and Günther's “Zeitalter der Entdeckungen”; for its earlier upon Nordenskjöld's “Periplus,” Hughes' “Storia della Geografia,” Heyd's “Commerce du Levant,” Uzielli and Amat's “Studi biografici … sulla Storia della Geografia,” K. Miller's “Mappæmundi,” Beazley's “Dawn of Modern Geography,” Avezac's edition of, and introduction to, Carpini, Yule's Marco Polo, &c.
L'Epoca delle grandi Scoperte geografiche.
Di Carlo Errera. Con 21 carte, &c. Pp. xvi + 432 (text, 357). (Milano: Hoepli, 1901.) Price L.6.50.
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L'Epoca delle grandi Scoperte geografiche . Nature 65, 124 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065124a0
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