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  • The Fourth Part of the Worldby Toby Lester

    Free Press 2009; US$ 16.99

    "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They... more...

  • Da Vinci's Ghostby Toby Lester

    Free Press 2012; US$ 16.00

    Everybody knows the image, but nobody knows its story. In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci produced his iconic drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square: Vitruvian Man. Today the image appears on everything from coffee cups and T-shirts to corporate logos and spacecraft, and has become the world?s most famous cultural icon. Yet few people know anything... more...

  • Da Vinci's Ghostby Toby Lester

    Profile 2011; US$ 27.18

    Vitruvian Man is the world's most famous drawing, by one of the world's most famous artists. The image - named after a Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius - has become visual shorthand for artistic genius and scientific inquiry, and yet nobody knows anything about it. In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester examines... more...

  • The Fourth Part of the Worldby Toby Lester

    Profile 2012; US$ 40.00

    The Waldseem?ller Map of 1507 introduced an astonishing collection of cartological firsts. It was the first map to show the New World as a separate continent, alongside Europe, Africa and Asia - and the first on which the word 'America' appears. It was the first map to suggest the existence of the Pacific. It was, in short, the first map to... more...

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