Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas by Paul Binding

Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas

Paul Binding

320 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had done—it presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was ...

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