Here Begins the Dark Sea : Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World Designed for home learning Financial Times

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Published on 18 January 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom

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Here Begins the Dark Sea : Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World Designed for home learning Financial TimesAuthor: Small, Meredith Francesca c 1000 CE to c 1500 Published on 3 August 2023 by Pegasus Books in the United States. Hardback 320 pages, 16 pages of colour images 164 x 238 x 32 502g The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiecethe Venetian mappa mundithat revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauros mappamundi is the oldest and most