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...