The Geographical Journal, July 1st, 1995
Several leading cartographic historians have quailed at the prospect of updating Leo Bagrow's erudite commentary on the mapmakers consulted by Ortelius for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in 1570. A broader range of cartographical thinking, and the discovery of many new maps over the last 60 years, have both necessitated a major revision to Bagrow's work since it was published as two supplements to Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen in 1928-30.
Two researchers, in 1991 and 1993, offered complementary books on essentially the same subject. That by Robert Karrow of the Newberr...
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