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  • "Chronicles of explorations, travel accounts, and maps had a chance to reach educated people throughout Europe because publishing had become a commercial and cultural phenomenon of growing importance in the sixteenth century. What appears remarkable in hindsight is the success of four extraordinary men who made careers out of publicizing the voyages of discovery. They were Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Theodor de Bry, and Richard Hakluyt--two Italians, a Ducthman, and an Englishman. Martyr published his magnum opus, De Orbo Novo, in 1519, and Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations appeared in 1589."

    --Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 74

    December 28, 2016