"First published in France under the title L'Age d'or des Cartes Marines © Éditions du Seuil, 2012."--Title page verso.
Catalog of the exhibition at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, October 23, 2012-January 27, 2013.
Oceanic overture / Frank Lestringant
The fascination of portolans: historiography and collections / Catherine Hofmann
How portolan maps were made and used through the centuries / Catherine Hofmann, Hélène Richard, Emmanuelle Vagnon
Catalonian atlas
The Mediterranean: the cradle of portolan maps / Emmanuelle Vagnon
Navigational maps: the first widely distributed maps / Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller
Mediterranean cartographers of the 16th and 17th centuries / Corradino Astengo
Antique, medieval and new world cities on portolan maps / Jean-Yves Sarazin
Insular maritime cosmography and European expansion during the Renaissance / Georges Tolias
Nautical planisphere / Nicolò de Caverio
The challenge of the oceans / Hélène Richard
The exploration and geopolitical stakes of Iberian cartography (15th and 16th centuries) / Luisa Martín-Merás Verdejo
From the Mediterranean to the ocean: new problems, new solutions / Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Norman hydrographers (16th and 17th centuries) / Sarah Toulouse
Universal cosmography / Guillaume Le Testu
The iconography of the new world (15th-17th centuries) / Surekha Davies
Hydrographers along the Thames (16th and 17th centuries) / Sarah Tyacke
The Miller atlas
The distribution of knowledge / Emmanuelle Vagnon
Medieval cartography of the Indian Ocean: the imagined ocean / Emmanuelle Vagnon
Nautical and humanist cartography of the Indian Ocean (16th and 17th centuries) / Zoltán Biedermann
Cartography of the Dutch East India Company's far east routes / Hans Kok
Map of the Pacific Ocean / Hessel Gerritsz.
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The golden age of maritime maps : when Europe discovered the world. ISBN 9781770852389. Published by Firefly Books in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
