Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491) Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence /

• Main Author: Van Duzer, Chet (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Historical geography.; Geographical information systems.; Africa-History.; Cultural heritage.; Humanities-Digital libraries.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Historical Geography.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; African History.; Cultural Heritage.; Digital Humanities.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

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, perf...

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.