Curious but costly world view
In Rodney Shirley’s monumental study of 'The Mapping of the World… 1472-1700', the very first entry is a simple, circular woodcut known as a ‘T-O’ map, one in which the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa are very simply shown as named segments.
In the following year, however, there appeared the far more complex and much larger, woodcut T-0 m…