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Wed 11 Nov 2009Absorbing account of how a 16th-century cartographer put America on the map
BOOK OF THE DAY:The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest MapBy Toby Lester Profile, 464pp, £25
IN AN era of satellite imagery and internet technology it can be difficult to appreciate the challenge that visualising our world once posed. Scholars in medieval Europe viewed the Earth as centre of the cosmos, and constructed a three-part world view based on the landmasses of Europe, Africa and Asia being encircled by ocean.
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