Ships on Maps

Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe

Richard W Unger author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:4th Aug '10

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Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.

ISBN: 9781349312078

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 559g

233 pages

1st ed. 2010