LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

(All illustrations, except Figs. 1, 15, and 23, are reproductions of medieval maps. The source is indicated in a general way in each title; the precise reference will be found in the text where the map is first discussed.)

FIG.   PAGE
  1 Map of the Sargasso Sea, 1:72,000,000 28
  2 The Pizigani, 1367 (two sections) 40–41
  3 Beccario, 1426 45
  4 Dalorto, 1325 51
  5 Catalan map, 1375 58
  6 Nicolay, 1560 62
  7 Catalan map, about 1480 64
  8 World map in portolan atlas, about 1508 (Egerton MS. 2803) 74
  9 Desceliers, 1546 76
10 Ortelius, 1570 77
11 Ptolemy, 1513 82
12 Prunes, 1553 88
13 Coppo, 1528 97
14 Bishop Thorláksson, 1606 98
15 Map of the early Norse Western and Eastern Settlements of Greenland, 1:6,400,000 103
16 Clavus, 1427 104
17 Donnus Nicolaus Germanus, after 1466 105
18 Sigurdr Stefánsson, 1590 107
19 Zeno, 1558 126
20 Beccario, 1435 152
21 Pareto, 1455 158
22 Benincasa, 1482 160
23 Representation of Corvo on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century maps as compared with its present outline 172
24 Buss Island, probably 1673 176
25 Bianco, 1436 179