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June 02, 2013
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The so-called Genoese World Map of 1457: A Stepping Stone Towards Modern Cartography?
Around the time of Christopher Columbus's birth, we find on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, especially in the north of Italy, a variety of people particularly interested in problems of geography and cartography.