Feb 24, 2013reader0118 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Guided to a surprising degree by a Church increasingly global in its outlook and imperial in its ambitions the efforts fed into a collective quest for knowledge, power, and wealth the likes of which had never before been seen. That quest was at once mystical, rapacious, evangelical, self-centered, grand, inspiring, and often delusional- and nothing charts its full course better than the Waldseemuller map of 1507.
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The Fourth Part of the World