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Washington’s famous Waldseemüller map is dethroned. A watershed reappraisal of an older world map proves that descriptions by Amerigo Vespucci prompted the name America. For all interested in the discovery and naming of America, this historic milestone is an eyeopener.
In a forgotten corner of a New York library sits America’s oldest cartographic birth certificate, dating from c. 1508. Washington’s epic $10 million Waldseemüller woodcut map, (not an original but a 1516 reprint on used paper) is painstakingly dethroned. In a watershed reappraisal of an intricate world gore map from Albi, hometown of and attributed to Louis Boulengier, a scale equal to the Da Vinci Globe dating from 1504, the reader is brought into archives across the world. The Belgian RGS Fellow and Professor, who lives in Austria, proves that the habits of the American genus, described by Amerigo Vespucci, prompted the young French poet, M. Ringmann, in March of 1507 to change “Americi” for America. D.N. Germanus, a Benedictine runaway monk, globemaker in 1477 for the Vatican, is found to be the mastermind behind the copper engraving to alleviate the work of scholars. For all interested in the discovery and naming of America, this historic milestone is an eyeopener.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life. This title presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora.
This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.
Discover the surprising dialogue between East and West. This uplifting book reveals a history of mutual influence, from the common ground of Confucius and Socrates to China’s unexpected impact on Western thinkers like Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
The discovery of explorer Verrazzano’s 500-year-old travel report led to a world map found among Leonardo da Vinci’s papers. Astonishingly, their families were neighbors. Did Leonardo influence his countryman? This book offers new evidence on their connection.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
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