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The Explorers five Europeans who redrew the map of the world
Title
The Explorers [electronic resource (video)] : five Europeans who redrew the map of the world / Grand Angle Productions (Firm)
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2009], c2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (72 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Mar. 14, 2009.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Using sophisticated animation and expertise from modern scholars and archivists, this program reconstructs European voyages of discovery that took place in the 15th through 18th centuries and profiles the visionaries who led them. Viewers are introduced to Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian merchant who gave his name to the New World; Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese admiral who found the passage to the Pacific; Louis-Antoine Bougainville, the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe; French explorer Jean Francois de Galaup La Perouse, whose expedition criss-crossed the Pacific, then vanished in Oceania; and James Cook, the English navigator who mapped the Eastern coast of Australia.
Variant and related titles
Five Europeans who redrew the map of the world
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Other formats
Originally produced: Grand Angle Productions (Firm) , 2009
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
11 & up.
Contents
Motivation for 15th-Century Exploration (3:30)
Voyage of Vespucci (3:42)
Vespucci Discovers a New World (4:04)
The Name "America" (2:15)
Magellan 's Knowledge of Earth (3:03)
Magellan's Voyage to Brazil (2:44)
Spanish Revolt Against Magellan (3:18)
Magellan Searches for the Spice Islands (3:03)
Magellan's Death (2:34)
French Exploration (3:09)
French Circumnavigator: Louis-Antoine Bougainville (3:12)
Bougainville Arrives in Tahiti (4:47)
Bougainville Ends His Voyage (3:25)
Louis XVI and World Explorations (3:06)
Exploration of West Coast of North America (3:06)
China Scorns European Explorers (2:51)
Equatorial Climate and Scurvy (3:11)
End of La Prouse's Expedition (1:01)
Improved Navigational Tools (3:54)
Captain Cook: Calculation of Longitude (2:49)
Captain Cook in the Far North (3:38)
Captain James Cook: Greatest of the Explorers (2:43)
Videorecording number
39999 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Grand Angle Productions (Firm)
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