Ships on Maps

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Ships on Maps is written by Richard W. Unger and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230282164 (ISBN 10) and 9780230282162 (ISBN 13).

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.