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Published on: 2009-10-14
Released on: 2009-11-03
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"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth—until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemüller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus’s contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemüller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci’s honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester’s telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe’s early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemüller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity’s worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world. Videos - Latest World Headline News Breaking News Kellyanne Conway Uses White House Role To Tout Ivanka Trump Products Trump Told The Chinese President He'd Honor The 'One China' Policy Senate Confirms Tom Price As ... Entertainment News - Los Angeles Times L.A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries read TV and movie reviews and more. Fourth Doctor Tardis Fandom powered by Wikia Filled with wanderlust and a renewed curiosity towards exploring time and space the Fourth Doctor left all ties of his previous incarnation's exile behind on Earth ... No Fourth Wall - TV Tropes The No Fourth Wall trope as used in popular culture. Some series can go their entire lives without breaking the Fourth Wall once. Some series will Business News Personal Finance and Money News - ABC News Find the latest business news on Wall Street jobs and the economy the housing market personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News Retired Site PBS Programs PBS If you are a teacher searching for educational material please visit PBS LearningMedia for a wide range of free digital resources spanning preschool through 12th grade. Energy and the Human Journey: Where We Have Been; Energy and the Human Journey: Where We Have Been; Where We Can Go. By Wade Frazier . Version 1.2 published May 2015. Version 1.0 published September 2014. Texarkana Gazette Texarkana Breaking News The Texarkana Gazette is the premier source for local news and sports in Texarkana and the surrounding Arklatex areas. International News Latest World News Videos & Photos ... Get the latest international news and world events from Asia Europe the Middle East and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com Invisible Child: Dasanis Homeless Life - The New York Times For all of McKinneys pluck its burdens are great. In the last six years the city has cut the schools budget by a quarter as its population declined.
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