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The chapters of this book consist of a series of lectures given by seven different authorities in King's College, London, designed to cover the great movements in discovery during its most fruitful age. It is not, however, merely a series of disconnected episodes, since each great voyager is regarded in his historical setting and the whole gives a coherent view of the development of the map of the world during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Each lecture is thoroughly documented with references to original sources and there are reproductions of old maps as well as other illustrations.
The Great Age of Discovery.
Edited by A. P. Newton. Pp. xi + 230 + 31 plates. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1932.) 15s. net.
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The Great Age of Discovery . Nature 131, 260 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131260b0
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