Toscanelli and Columbus : The letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus; a critical study on the authenticity and value of these documents and the sources of the cosmographical ideas of Columbus, followed by the various texts of the letter / with translations, annotations, several facsimiles and also a map; by Henry Vignaud.
- Vignaud, Henry, 1830-1922.
- Date:
- 1902
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London : Sands & Co., 1902.
Physical description
vii-xix, 365 pages, 1 unnumbered page : folded map, 2 folded facsimiles, folded tables, folded transcript ; 22 cm
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Notes
French edition published in 1901 under title: La lettre et la carte de Toscanelli
"The English edition of this work ... differs in many respects from the French edition. Several new chapters have been added, and important alterations and amplifications made"--Pref., p. vii
Bibliographic information
"Sources of information: Bibliography": p. 9-20, 171-177.
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