Astronomer, cartographer and naturalist of the New World : the life and scholarly achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in colonial Dutch Brazil /
"Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But i...
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Language: | English Latin |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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Series: | Studies in the history of knowledge
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