Gunpowder, Navigation, and Printing
GUNPOWDER, COMPASS AND PRINTING PRESS
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Philosopher of
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Jim Bennett, The Divided
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and Surveying (Oxford, 1987)
Jim Bennett and Stephen Johnston, The
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David Buisseret (ed.), Monarchs,
Ministers and Maps. The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool
of Government in Early Modern Europe
(Chicago and London, 1992)
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and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue
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the Evolution of Western Civilization
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and War with reference principally to
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John H. Parry, The Discovery
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Captain Cook (London, 1956)
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(London, 1958)
David Woodward (ed.), Five Centuries
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Exhibition catalogues:
Portugal Brazil. The Age of Atlantic
Discoveries (Lisbon, etc., 1990)
Jay A. Levenson (ed.), Circa 1492.
Art in the Age of Exploration (London and New Haven,
Conn., 1991)
M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, Armada
1588-1988 (London, 1988)
This bibliography is based on a bibliography © University of
Oxford, Modern History Faculty, 2001