The comprehensive guide to engineering alternative and renewable energy systems and applications--updated for the latest
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Table of contents :
The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century --
A turkey in a Medici tapestry --
The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova --
Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature --
The Stanzino and the representation of the New World --
Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World --
The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians --
Stradano's invention of the Americas --
The Americas both real and imagined.