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The Magellan Myth - Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemueller
Map of 1507
by Peter W. Dickson, Printing Arts Press established in 1946, large 8.5 x 11
inch format, 29 illustrations some in color, 126 pages with two 11 x 17 inch
fold-outs showing the pre-Waldseemueller Lenox Globe and the
Franco-Portuguese Connections that link Columbus (not Vespucci) to key figures behind the
famous project at Saint-Die which in 1507 published Cosmographiae Introductio,
Latin translations of Vespucci's Letters and the large Waldseemueller world
map plus the companion globe gores. Attachments include a detailed
chronology of events for the 1503-1513 period and two tables. One catalogues more
than 20
pre-Magellan maps, globes and globe gores that depict the ice cream cone
shape of South America and a water passage (a cape and/or strait) and a second
table lists 44 maps/globes from the 1524-1587 period that show a water passage
and either fail to name the strait or do so -- not always in honor of
Magellan but instead for someone else even as late as the 1580s.
Please Note: This is a limited edition work intended primarily for elite
scholars, though given orders thus far a second printing will probably be
necessary. There will be no ISBN number unless a commercial press expresses
interest which is not totally impossible, but this remains a book probably far
too detailed in terms of research for a broader audience.
Other Information: Contact the author for a full prospectus concerning this
work and purchase information at _pwdbard@aol.com_ (mailto:atpwdbard@aol.com)
or call (703) 243-6641.
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