Meredith Small Explains How a 15th-Century Venetian Monk Mapped the World and Saw the Future
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of Here Begins the Dark Sea, Meredith F. Small, about Fra Mauro, the 15th-century Venetian monk whose map of the world marked the beginning of our global age.
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Meredith F. Small is a professor of anthropology at Cornell University and the author of Our Babies Ourselves; What’s Love Got to Do With It? and Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization, also available from Pegasus Books. She has written for Natural History Magazine, Discover, Scientific American, and is a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She lives in Philadelphia.
