INVENTIO FORTUNATA and Polar Cartography, 1360-1700
FAIN: RH-21294-95
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ 86011-0001)
Delno C. West (Project Director: November 1994 to December 1996)
To support a study of how a largely symbolic representation of the earth's north polar region written in 1360 came to be accepted by Renaissance cartogra-phers as scientific knowledge and persisted on maps until the 17th century.