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BBC Global on the Fra Mauro Map

Published on 5 April 2024 by Jonathan Crowe

Here’s a short video from the BBC Global YouTube channel on the 1450 Fra Mauro map.

Related: Meredith F. Small’s Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World (Pegasus, June 2023): Amazon (Canada, UK), Bookshop.

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