Excerpt from Genoese World Map, 1457: Facsimile and Critical Text Incorporating in Free Translation the Studies of Professor Theobald Fischer, Revised With the Addition of Copious Notes It is a much less pretentious map than that drawn by Fra Mauro,2 but it is of almost equal date and not second to it in scientific importance. There is evidence that its author was better informed on certain geographical mat ters than was the monk of Murano, as, for example, con cerning certain European, African, and Indian contour features, and that the peculiar form he chose for his map had less influence in leading him to distort what could then be called remote regions than had the circular form which Fra Mauro chose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.