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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | The African Puzzle | |
| 1 | Canon and variations on the medieval ecumene | 7 |
| 2 | Marvels at the southern edge of the world | 23 |
| 3 | Prester John: the migration of a legend | 51 |
| Pt. 2 | The Limits of Symbolic Space: From Allegorical Geometry to a Figurative World | |
| 4 | Displaying Ham's territory | 75 |
| 5 | The impact of portolan charts | 91 |
| 6 | From the mirror of the ocean | 117 |
| Pt. 3 | Charting Euclidean Space: The Cartography of the Great Discoveries | |
| 7 | Beyond the Pillars of Hercules | 149 |
| 8 | From mare clausum to mare liberum | 161 |
| 9 | Towards the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea | 177 |
| Pt. 4 | From the Form to the Contents: The Design of the Unknown | |
| 10 | Ptolemy shifted, and yet the same | 187 |
| 11 | The Mountains of the Moon | 197 |
| 12 | The Great Central Lake | 205 |
| Conclusions: The Projection of the Renaissance Tradition | 215 | |
| Bibliography | 221 | |
| Index | 265 |
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