TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metcalf,Alida C.
TI  - Mapping an Atlantic world: circa 1500 
SN  - 9781421438535
AV  - GA368 .M48 2020
U1  - 526.09182/109031 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Cartographers
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region
KW  - Cartographes
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Cartographie
KW  - Atlantique, Région de l'
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The Atlantic Ocean on the periphery -- 1500 -- Chartmakers -- The fourth part of the world -- Parrots and trees -- The cannibalist scene
N2  - "The year 1500, Metcalf argues, was a turning point in Europeans' understanding of their world in relation to the Atlantic Ocean. In the sixteenth century, cartographers began to conceptualize-and present to the public-an interconnected Atlantic World that was open and navigable, in contrast with the mysterious ocean that had blocked off the Western hemisphere before Columbus. The author contends that early modern cartographers were significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic World"--
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