This study, written as an introduction to the facsimile reproduction of 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', is the story of the origins of Dutch Navigation and Maritime cartography and also of the development of charts and seamen's guides in the 16th and 17th centuries.
It has the background of the European seas on which such a very important part of the economic and political history of the continent has taken place.
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