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Apocalyptic Cartography - Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript (Hardcover)
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Apocalyptic Cartography - Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript (Hardcover)
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In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World
in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines
analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced
in Lubeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of
world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original
cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of
thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the
transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the
Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and
transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the
maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in
Wolfenbuttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief
article about this book on the website of National Geographic can
be found here.
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