America And Amerindians In Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550)

America And Amerindians In Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550) Surekha Davies, 2010   Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550) was produced in more sixteenth-century editions that any book apart from the Bible. A descriptive geography prefaced by a series of maps, it offered the reader an overview of the world's peoples, natural history and geography. While German cosmographers had been instrumental in the emergence of the notion of America as...

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