Название: Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map in the World
Автор: Meredith Francesca Small
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1639364196
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 32,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity.