History: World from The Owl at the Bridge

"After The Discoverers, a tale of man's search to know the world and himself, I was more than ever convinced that the pursuit of knowledge is only one path to human fulfillment. This companion book, also a view from the literate West, is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination. While The Discoverers told of the conquest of… Ler mais sobre este item

Chapter headings: The Earth Takes Shape; The Habitable World; The World of Claudius Ptolemy; The Middle Ages; Charts and the Haven-Finding Art; The Map and Chart Trade; The Latitude; The Longitude; Survey of a Country; Survey of a World; Bibliography, pages 341-373; Index. 393 pages, illustrations include color frontispiece; 26 cm. Pictorial dust jacket worn & chipped, spine darkened; the… Ler mais sobre este item

"The exploration and exploitation of non-European areas by Europeans during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries form one of the greatest phenomena of the Renaissance, one that had never been previously witnessed on such a scale and one that is still of prime importance in the world today." Contents: 1. The Background-- Classical and Medieval; 2. Some Free-lance Travelers of… Ler mais sobre este item

"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed from it." xv, 365 pages, 80 illustrations, 5 maps,… Ler mais sobre este item

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 112. "The fifteenth-century Italian merchant and traveler Cyriacus of Ancona... journeyed tirelessly in Italy, Dalmatia, Greece, and the Levant in search of classical inscriptions..., recording his findings... in notebooks which are now almost entirely lost. Much of their content, however, has come down in the… Ler mais sobre este item

"The Commentary is an essential adjunct to the facsimiles published in 1970 as The Blathwayt Atlas, Volume I: The Maps. ...Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the areas of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in the Western Hemisphere, in the latter part of the seventeenth century." xx, 235… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Putnam, 1999. Soft Cover. 449 p.; 22.5 cm. "Uncorrected manuscript for limited Distribution". Numbered in ms. 20 articles in typescript form with no maps or illustrations. This is how books are (were?) promoted. ISBN (10): 0399145761 Stock#47557. Vg / soft cover.