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  title info:
    title: Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
    sub title: Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
  name:
    name part: Van Duzer, Chet.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 208 p. 45 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller's famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Henricus Martellus and his Works -- 2 The Legends on the Yale Martellus Map -- 3 Toponyms in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia -- 4 Toponyms on the Western and Southern Coasts of Africa -- 5 Southern Africa and the Egyptus novelo maps -- 6 The Influence of the Yale Martellus Map -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendix A: Equipment and Techniques Used in the Multispectral Imaging of the Yale Martellus Map, by Roger Easton, Gregory Heyworth, and Kenneth Boydston -- Appendix B: Supplementary Images.
  note: by Chet Van Duzer.
  subject:
    topic: Historical geography
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Africa-History
  subject:
    topic: Cultural heritage
  subject:
    topic: Humanities-Digital libraries
  subject:
    topic: Lasers
  subject:
    topic: Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Historical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  subject:
    topic: African History
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: Digital Humanities
  subject:
    topic: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
  classification: G141
  classification: 911
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319768403
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76840-3
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    record creation date: 180803
    record change date: 20191023112258.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-76840-3