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- ↑ Seaver, Kirsten A. (January 1998). "Norumbega and Harmonia Mundi in sixteenth‐century cartography". Imago Mundi. 50 (1): 34–58. doi:10.1080/03085699808592878. ISSN 0308-5694.
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