Prologue by Russell Panczenko............................................................................................................................................ 2
Prologue by Matthew Edney................................................................................................................................................. 3
Introduction................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
A geocentric universe and a tripartite world...................................................................................................................... 7
CONTENTS
“Miss America and her sisters”
at the four corners of the map.............................................................................................................................................. 10
“Because this space was empty, and lifelike pictures of
exotic things almost always please scholars”................................................................................................................... 16
Maps, a world of knowledge................................................................................................................................................. 22
Titles in cartouches:
An image is worth a thousand words.................................................................................................................................. 29
Reaching for the edges and mapping us........................................................................................................................... 36
Plates.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................................................................. 85