. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ?*, * u. Part of the Catalan Map (1375). POLOS INFLUENCE ON GEOGRAPHY 135 in this Map something like the idea of Asia that the Tra-veller himself would have presented, had he bequeathed aMap to us. [Some years ago, I made a special study of the Far East inthe Catalan Map. [L Extreme-Orient dans H Atlas Catalan deCharles V., Paris, 1895), and I have come to the conclusion thatthe cartographers knowledge of Eastern Asia is drawn almostentirely from Marco Polo. We give a reproduction of part of theCatala
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ?*, * u. Part of the Catalan Map (1375). POLOS INFLUENCE ON GEOGRAPHY 135 in this Map something like the idea of Asia that the Tra-veller himself would have presented, had he bequeathed aMap to us. [Some years ago, I made a special study of the Far East inthe Catalan Map. [L Extreme-Orient dans H Atlas Catalan deCharles V., Paris, 1895), and I have come to the conclusion thatthe cartographers knowledge of Eastern Asia is drawn almostentirely from Marco Polo. We give a reproduction of part of theCatalan Map.—H. C] 85. In the following age we find more frequent indicationsthat Polos book was diffused and read. And now that thespirit of discovery began to stir, it was apparently ConfusIonsregarded in a juster light as a Book of Facts, and not ^aphy°0fas a mere Romman du Grant Kaan* But in fact ^^this age produced new supplies of crude information favourin greater abundance than the knowledge of geogra- new^doldphers was prepared to digest or co-ordinate, and the lnformatlon-consequence is that
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