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UNINA9910366649503321 |
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Autore |
Van Duzer Chet |
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Titolo |
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 [[electronic resource] ] : Study and Transcription of the Long Legends / / by Chet Van Duzer |
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Cham, : Springer Nature, 2020 |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VII, 150 p. 55 illus., 45 illus. in color.) |
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Historical geography |
Geographical information systems |
World history |
Cultural heritage |
Europe—History |
Historical Geography |
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
Cultural Heritage |
European History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction to the Carta marina -- 2. Transcription, Translation, and Study of the Legends -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re- |
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evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography. . |
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UNINA9910716456103321 |
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Titolo |
Denaturization of industrial alcohol. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting in response to Senate Resolution No. 311, copies of laws pertaining to the denaturization of industrial alcohol; the existing regulations; and copies of the formulae now in effect together with copy of the official report made by the head of the Technical Division on September 3, 1926. January 11, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 pages) : tables |
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Collana |
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Senate document / 69th Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 195 |
[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8699] |
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Alcohols |
Law |
Legislation |
Liquor laws |
Prohibition - United States - History |
Legislative materials. |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Appendix to Regulations No. 61: Formulas for completely and specially denatured alcohol, p. 113. |
Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. |
FDLP item number not assigned. |
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