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Copyright © Edward Wilson-Lee 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008146221
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008146238
Version: 2018-05-04
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Contents
Prologue: Seville, 12 July 1539
PART I: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE
II. In the Chamber of Clean Blood
PART II: A LANGUAGE OF PICTURES
VI. Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
VIII. The Architecture of Order
PART III: AN ATLAS OF THE WORLD
XIII. The Library Without Walls
PART IV: SETTING THINGS IN ORDER
XIV. Another Europe and the Same
XVII. Epilogue: Ideas on the Shelf
A Note on the Life and Deeds of the Admiral
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