MAPS AND SOCIETY
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Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Tony Campbell (Map
Library, British Library) and Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of
Historical Research). Meetings are held at The Warburg Institute
(University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB) at 5.00 pm.
Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are very
welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 7412 7525 (Tony Campbell)
<[log in to unmask]>.
TENTH SERIES: 2000-2001
2000
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October 26. Dr Erin Blake (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.).
'Zograscopes, Topographical Views, and Polite Society circa 1750.'
November 16. Dr Graham Burnett (History of Science Program,
University of Oklahoma). 'Masters of All They Surveyed: Cartography,
Exploration, Geography and a British 'El Dorado'.'
December 7. Peter Chasseaud (Department of Earth & Environmental
Sciences, University of Greenwich). 'Artillery's Astrologers: Mapping
the Western Front, 1914-1918.'
2001
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January 25. Dr Georgina Endfield (Department of Geography, University of
Nottingham). 'Images of Contested Space in Sixteenth-century Michoacan,
west central Mexico.'
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Sponsored by The Hakluyt Society
February 22. James W. Kelly (Worcester College, University of Oxford). 'The
Voyage of the 'Trinity' in the Pacific (1680-2): Buccaneers, Chartmakers,
and the Keys to a Private Sea.'
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March 8. Professor Daniel L. Smail (Department of History, Fordham
University, New York). 'From Verbal to Graphic Cartographies: The Case
of Late Medieval Marseille.'
March 22. Dr Roger Batty (Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan).
'Roman Mapping of the Provinces.'
April 26. Dr Noël Golvers (Faculty of Arts, Catholic University Leuven).
'European Jesuits as Cartographers of China in the Last Decades of the
Seventeenth Century.'
May 24. Dr Margriet Hoogvliet (Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen). 'Early Modern Cartography and the 'studiolo'.'
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This programme has been made possible through the generous sponsorship
of The International Map Collectors' Society, Jonathan Potter of
Jonathan Potter Ltd., and Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. It is
supported by Imago Mundi. Displays for each lecture, at the Royal
Geographical Society, are arranged by Francis Herbert, Hon. F.R.G.S.
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