Here Begins the Dark Sea av Meredith Francesca Small

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<b>The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian <I>mappa mundi—</I>that revolutionized how we see the world.</b><BR><BR>In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world.  Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s <I>mappamundi </I>is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking <I>mappamundi</I> provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water and land as they really existed. Fra Mauro's map was the first in history to show that a ship could circumnavigate Africa, and that the Indian “Sea” was in fact an ocean, enabling international trade to expand across the globe. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith F. Small reveals how Fra Mauro’s <I>mappamundi</I> made cartography into a science rather than a practice based on religion a