tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207247428561208142024-03-12T22:58:14.174-05:00Terrae InblognitaeThe Blog for the Society for the History of DiscoveriesSHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-54120265384263780382018-03-05T15:24:00.001-06:002018-03-05T15:26:58.503-06:00Call for Papers, 2018 Annual Meeting!!!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for the
History of Discoveries</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Where: Golden,
Colorado</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>20-22 September 2018 with tour on 23
September <span style="color: #c00000; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Venue: Colorado School
of Mines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our 2018 Annual
Meeting will be provided in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Map Society and
it will also offer a pre-conference that will be free to SHD members. The </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">RMMS </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">pre-conference, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Golden
Quest: Mapping the Stampedes</i>, will take place on Thursday, before the
traditional opening reception of the SHD conference that evening, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">followed by SHD’s program on Friday and
Saturday. The Exhibition of the Colorado Gold Rush History, a world-famous
collection of rocks as well as maps of the West will be exhibited in the
Geology Museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Following the
conference, on Sunday September 23<sup>rd</sup>, will be a guided tour of
original gold-rush towns in the mountains near Golden, a ride on the famous
Georgetown Loop steam engine train, an expert tour of an underground gold mine,
and then a tour of impressive dinosaur and geological wonders nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Theme: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mountains of the American West</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Gold
Rush in the American West sparked interest in the vast mountain area situated
between the continent’s interior and the West Coast. The development of an
overland route that connected the continental part of the country with the
Pacific coastline spurred the exploration and mapping of the Rocky Mountains as
never before. Fur traders, gold miners, soldiers, colonists, and adventurers
became explorers and mapmakers of the great mountains of the American West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Papers, 20 minutes in
length, are invited on all aspects of this theme, from exploration and the
reconnaissance of the mountains, mining activities, survival conditions, trail
supplies, the family life of the pioneers, as well as any other </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">social and economic
aspect relating to the colonization and exploitation of this mountainous area. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Committee also welcomes proposals from
<span style="margin: 0px;">SHD members, scholars, and independent
researchers</span> that address <u><span style="margin: 0px;">all
aspects of geographical discovery and exploration</span></u><span style="margin: 0px;">. Preference will be given to those papers
that are particularly aligned with the conference theme, but all paper
proposals of high quality, regardless of geographic orientation, will be
considered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The audience at SHD meetings is diverse
and includes academics and members of various professions. All are especially
interested in the processes and consequences of geographical exploration and
discovery. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings,
photographs, etc.). <u>For the benefit of the audience all visuals have to be
presented as PowerPoint-compatible projections</u>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Paper proposals are due March 15, 2018. Please provide
a proposal that includes the following components:</span></b></div>
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author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">an
abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (<b>maximum of 500
words)</b></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">a
statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new,
unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">a
statement indicating whether PowerPoint or other digital media will be used and
whether internet access is necessary for the presentation</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">a
brief biographic sketch of the author(s)</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">SHD
welcomes submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Paper proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments, <u>with the
subject line <b>SHD 2018</b></u>, to:</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Dr. Mirela Altić, Program Committee Chair, mirela.altic@gmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Questions?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Please contact Dr. Altić
at mirela.altic@gmail.com</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-2088702831270303342016-12-24T13:42:00.002-06:002016-12-24T13:43:45.791-06:00Call for Papers: 2017 Annual Meeting<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Call for Papers</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries</span></b></div>
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<b>Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA</b></div>
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<b>When: 22-23 September 2017 with possible outings on 21 and 24 September</b></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Wisconsin_in_1718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Wisconsin_in_1718.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<i>Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi</i> <br />
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<b>Theme: From the Midwest to the Arctic: Exploration and its Impact in the Northland</b><br />
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Papers, 20 minutes in length, are invited on all aspects of this theme, from explorers to fur</div>
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traders to cartography. Jesuit missionaries played a key role in exploring and mapping this</div>
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region and Marquette University, a Jesuit institution, will host select conference events. The</div>
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American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin will be our primary host</div>
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and in their honor we also encourage papers on arctic exploration, as well as papers on the</div>
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history of cartography generally.</div>
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The Program Committee welcomes proposals from SHD members, scholars, and independent</div>
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researchers that address all aspects of geographical discovery and exploration. Preference will</div>
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be given to those papers that are particularly aligned with the themes noted above, but all paper</div>
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proposals of high quality, regardless of geographic orientation, will be considered.</div>
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The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various</div>
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professions. All are especially interested in the processes and consequences of geographical</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
exploration and discovery. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings,</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience all visuals must be presented as PowerPoint</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
compatible projections.</div>
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<b>Paper Proposals are Due Friday, February 3, 2017</b>:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">the title of the presentation</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new,</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">a statement indicating whether power point or other digital media will be used and</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">whether internet access is necessary for the presentation.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">a brief biographic sketch of the author(s)</li>
</ul>
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<b>SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars.</b></div>
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Paper proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments, with the subject line SHD 2017, to:</div>
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Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, Program Committee Chair</div>
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ragn0001@umn.edu<br />
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Questions? Please contact Dr. Ragnow at ragn0001@umn.edu or 612-624-6895</div>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-12272308659046780832016-07-24T16:47:00.001-05:002016-08-25T10:13:39.994-05:0057th Annual Meeting: Registration Information<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">57th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries</span></b></div>
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<b>September 22 (Thursday) – September 24 (Saturday), 2016</b></div>
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<b>Newport, Rhode Island</b></div>
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The conference hotel is the <a href="http://www.hotelviking.com/" target="_blank">Viking Hotel</a> in downtown Newport, RI, just a few short blocks from the waterfront.<br />
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Link <a href="https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?Hotel=29021&Chain=5433&shell=GCF_2&arrive=9/22/2016&depart=9/25/2016&adult=2&child=0&group=1K20SZ" target="_blank">here</a> for hotel reservations at the discounted SHD rate.<br />
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Conference registration is now open!<br />
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<li>$250.00 per person ($225.00 per person if you register by August 29, 2016)</li>
<li>$200.00 Companion registration</li>
<li>$175.00 Graduate Student</li>
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The fee for the excursion (lunch and harbor tour on Saturday afternoon) is $40.00. Please be sure to include this in your payment and note it in the registration information -- this is limited to the first 20 people.<br />
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Please register via Paypal, following the instructions below:<br />
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1. Go to the Internet URL <a href="https://www.paypal.com/" target="_blank">https://www.PayPal.com</a> <br />
2. Click on "Send Money"<br />
3. Sign up for FREE personal Account if you do not already have one. If you live in the USA, use U.S. Account Registration. If not residing in the USA, click on “International Account Registration.”<br />
Enter NO for Premier Account.<br />
4. Under "Recipient's E-mail" enter <a href="mailto:brandebo@hotmail.com" target="_blank">brandebo@hotmail.com</a><br />
5. Under "Amount" enter the amount you want charged to your<br />
credit card.<br />
6. Under 'Type" enter 'service.'<br />
7. Under "Email Subject*" enter "2016 Conference Registration-your last name" (enter YOUR last name, not "your last name")<br />
8. Under "Note*" enter the names of conference registrants, any dietary restrictions (this is important!), and your contact information (address, phone, e-mail). If you are also registering for the excursion, please indicate this and the # in your party.<br />
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If you have any questions about this procedure, contact the Treasurer at E-mail: <a href="mailto:brandebo@hotmail.com" target="_blank">brandebo@hotmail.com</a><br />
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-70405566743114222582016-07-13T15:09:00.002-05:002016-08-25T10:24:07.214-05:0057th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(All events take place at the Viking Hotel unless otherwise noted)</span></div>
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September 22<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1:00
p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Council Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:00
p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Opening
Reception/Registration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Friday, September
23<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:30
a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:30
a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Welcome: SHD
President: James Matthews<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:45
am. –10:15 a.m. <b>SESSION 1</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chet
Van Duzer, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Cartographer Sets Sail: Eyewitness
Records and Early Modern Maps”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">James Walker, “Chart of the
Northwest Coast of America: An Unrecorded Legacy of the 1790-1793 Voyage of the
<i>Columbia Rediviva</i> and A Record of
Earliest Encounters”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Richard Vondrak, “Amundsen's
Difficult Search for the Elusive North Magnetic Pole”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break/Registration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. <b>SESSION
2</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas J. Rushford, “Jean Ribault: Huguenot
Explorer in the Atlantic World”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lauren Beck, “Extramarital Explorations
in the Early Spanish Atlantic”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon Sun, “Your Affectionate Son:
Family Letters of Samuel Shaw”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. <b>SESSION 3</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mirela
Altić, “Jesuits at Sea: Jose Quiroga and
Jose Cardiel—Two Different Views of Patagonia 1745-1746”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne Good, “Curious Tastes: Experimental Eating on Ship and on Land”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomas J. Anderson, “The Desert
Mariner: Understanding the Global Experiences of F. G. Lyon in the Sahara and
Artic”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4:00
p.m. – 5:30 p.m. <b>SESSION 4</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charles
Sullivan, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From Sea to Shining Sea: Measuring
North America in the 16th Century”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lydia
Towns, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To Regulate or Not to Regulate: the
Seven Years' War and William Pitt's Attempt to Control British Privateers”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Janet
Rith-Najarian, “Captain Grace O’Malley and the Irish Seas: Piracy, Rebellion,
and Cartographic Espionage in the Elizabethan Era”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">6:00
p.m. – 9:30 p.m. <b>RECEPTION, ANNUAL
DINNER <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keynote
Address by D. K. Abbass: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"How So Many of James Cook's Ships
got to Rhode Island without the Great Navigator: The After-Glow of
Discovery"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">Saturday,
September 24</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:30
a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:30
a.m. – 9:45 a.m. <b>SESSION 5:</b> <b>Connections: Captain Cook and Rhode Island</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stephen
Baines, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rhode Island and Yorkshire: Colonial Rhode Island's Religious Tolerance
and the Quaker Connections to Maritime Trade”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kerry
Lynch, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Search for the <i>Lord Sandwich</i> ex <i>Endeavour</i>: The 2016 Update on RIMAP's Archaeological
Progress”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nigel Erskine, "What Finding
the <i>Endeavour</i> Means to the Modern World: 150th
Anniversary Plans in England, Australia, and (by the way) the Media”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9:45 a.m. – 10:15
a.m. Annual
Business Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">10:15 a.m. – 10:30
a.m. Break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">10:30 a.m. – 12:00
p.m. <b>SESSION 6</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Felipe
Fernandes Cruz, 2015 SHD Student Prize Winner, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Napalm
Colonization: Indigenous Peoples and Exploration in Brazil’s Aeronautical
Frontiers”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anthony
Mullan, “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Agustin Codazzi and Nation Building
in Nineteenth Century Venezuela”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Frances
L. Pollitt, “Charting Casco Bay: Lemuel Moody’s signature (and unrecognized)
contribution towards saving mariners’ lives in and around Portland Harbor,
Maine, 1825”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">12:30
p.m. – 2:00 p.m. <b>Picnic Lunch and Harbor Tour </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">(Separate Advance
Registration required; location/time is tentative and subject to change)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Special Tour: Redwood Library</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
are many things to do and see in Newport, many of them within walking distance
of the Viking Hotel. We encourage you to
visit the </span><a href="http://www.discovernewport.org/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">DiscoverNewport</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> website to plan
additional activities during your visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><u>Registration Information</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
Conference registration is now open!</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">$250.00 per person ($225.00 per person if you register by August 10, 2016)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">$200.00 Companion registration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">$175.00 Graduate Student</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fee for the excursion (lunch and harbor tour on Saturday afternoon) is $40.00. Please be sure to include this in your payment and note it in the registration information -- this is limited to the first 20 people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please register via Paypal, following the instructions below:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Go to the Internet URL <a href="https://www.paypal.com/" target="_blank">https://www.PayPal.com</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Click on "Send Money"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Sign up for FREE personal Account if you do not already have one. If you live in the USA, use U.S. Account Registration. If not residing in the USA, click on “International Account Registration.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enter NO for Premier Account.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Under "Recipient's E-mail" enter <a href="mailto:brandebo@hotmail.com" target="_blank">brandebo@hotmail.com</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Under "Amount" enter the amount you want charged to your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">credit card.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Under 'Type" enter 'service.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. Under "Email Subject*" enter "2016 Conference Registration-your last name" (enter YOUR last name, not "your last name")</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. Under "Note*" enter the names of conference registrants, any dietary restrictions (this is important!), and your contact information (address, phone, e-mail). If you are also registering for the excursion, please indicate this and the # in your party.</span><br />
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<b>2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries</b></div>
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Where: Newport, Rhode Island</div>
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When: 22-24 September 2016 with possible tour on 25 September</div>
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<b>Theme: The Mariner's Life: At Home, Abroad, and At Sea</b></div>
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Papers, 20 minutes in length, are invited on all aspects of this theme, from navigation to piracy,
from sailor's wives to shipwrecks, from slavery to food, shipboard entertainment, and the law of
the sea. A featured part of the conference will be the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project
and its work locating British ships, including Cook's bark <i>Endeavour</i>, lost off the Rhode Island
coast during the Revolutionary War.<br />
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The Program Committee welcomes proposals from SHD members, scholars, and independent
researchers that address all aspects of geographical discovery and exploration. Preference will
be given to those papers that are particularly aligned with the conference theme, but all paper
proposals of high quality, regardless of geographic orientation, will be considered.<br />
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The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various
professions. All are especially interested in the processes and consequences of geographical
exploration and discovery. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings,
photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience all visuals have to be presented as PowerPoint
compatible projections.<br />
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<b>Paper Proposals are Due February 15, 2016</b><br />
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<li>the title of the presentation </li>
<li>the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation </li>
<li>an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words) </li>
<li>a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new,
unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc. </li>
<li>a statement indicating whether power point or other digital media will be used and
whether internet access is necessary for the presentation. </li>
<li>a brief biographic sketch of the author(s) </li>
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<b>SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars. </b><br />
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Paper proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments, with the subject line SHD 2016, to:<br />
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Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, Program Committee Chair<br />
<a href="mailto:ragn0001@umn.edu">ragn0001@umn.edu</a><br />
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Questions? Please contact Dr. Ragnow at <a href="mailto:ragn0001@umn.edu">ragn0001@umn.edu</a> or 612-624-6895SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-32327872625379260912015-04-27T17:30:00.002-05:002015-04-27T17:30:32.251-05:00Latest issue of Terrae Incognitae<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The latest issue of <i>Terrae Incognitae</i>, the journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, is now online! <br />
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The contents of this issue are as follows:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000038?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">Editorial</a> by Lauren Beck</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000045?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">Call for Papers</a>: Exchanges about Discovery and Exploration</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000042?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">The Bimini Ghost Maps of William P. Cumming</a> by Gregory C. McIntosh</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000041?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">The Representation of the West Indies in Early Iberian Cartography: A Cartometric Approach</a> by Joaquim Alves Gaspar</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000043?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">Asian Geographical Features Misplaced South of the Equator on Sixteenth-century Maps</a> by W. A. R. "Bill" Richardson</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000040?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">Recent Literature in Discovery History</a> by Joshua Michael Marcotte</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000046?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">Book Reviews</a>, compiled by David Buisseret</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0082288415Z.00000000044?ai=16h&ui=1xs&af=T">New World, New Germs: The Role of European Expansion in the Development of Germ Theory</a> by Josephine Benson (SHD Student Essay Contest Winner, 2014)</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Insulae Americanae</i> by Cornelius Danckerts, 1696</td></tr>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-3814203061376858082014-10-17T17:22:00.005-05:002014-10-17T17:22:53.630-05:00SHD Members talk about Mapping the U.S.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Great American Desert" notation of the <br />Great Plains from Maj. Stephen Long's expedition.</td></tr>
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North Texas PBS station <a href="http://www.kera.org/">KERA</a> offers <a href="http://www.kera.org/2014/10/15/mapping-the-u-s/">an audio interview</a> of three map scholars and SHD members: University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) special collections curator <a href="http://www.uta.edu/library/staff/huseman-ben.php">Ben Huseman</a>; <a href="http://www.texasmapsociety.org/">Texas Map Society</a> president Gerald Saxon; and <a href="http://www.uta.edu/history/facultypages/demhardt.html">Imre Dembardt</a>, Professor of Cartographic History at UTA. Part of their radio series <a href="http://www.kera.org/radio/think/"><i>Think </i>with host Krys Boyd</a>, these scholars present a look at how maps relay information about American society as the United States has changed and expanded.<br />
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-25334832446264820842014-10-17T17:03:00.000-05:002014-10-17T17:03:11.110-05:00A new issue of the SHD newsletter Terrae Cognita<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The latest issue of the SHD newsletter <i>Terrae Cognita</i> has been <a href="http://www.sochistdisc.org/news_letter/SHD_Newsletter1.10.14.14.pdf">published here</a>. You'll find abstracts for the upcoming meeting in Austin, and other member news. Happy reading!</div>
SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-56426472483429119122014-10-17T16:57:00.003-05:002014-10-17T16:59:20.235-05:00Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus<br />
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martellus-map/">"Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus"</a> by Gregg Miller at <i>Wired</i>SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-52783356760513453652014-09-10T22:24:00.001-05:002014-09-10T22:24:42.278-05:00Franklin's Lost Expedition Found<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Man Proposes, God Disposes</i> by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1864.<br /><i>Source</i>: Wikimedia Commons</td></tr>
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Canadian researchers say they have discovered the wreckage of one of the ship's from Captain Sir John Franklin's lost 1845-1846 Arctic expedition, solving one of the major exploration mysteries of the Victorian Era. Franklin's team was locked in the ice during a doomed expedition searching for a passage through the islands of northern Canada, the famed Northwest Passage. All of the crew members eventually died. The remains of the expedition were never found, though numerous search parties were sent out to look for them. Researchers are not yet sure if they have found the HMS <i>Erebus </i>or the HMS <i>Terror</i>, but they have good views of the wreck under the waters of Victoria Strait, just off King William Island.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311">Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic</a> at CBC News</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29131757">Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found</a> at BBC News</li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-37080680020791585532014-08-11T18:37:00.000-05:002014-08-11T18:37:06.688-05:00The Ninth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of CartographyThe <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6sgxmYr6qkUY1hjcnVZSnRRVms/edit?usp=sharing">link</a> below is the announcement and registration brochure for the 2014 Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography/Map Fair of the West.<br />
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-29686743468324328342014-07-13T19:30:00.002-05:002014-07-13T19:31:03.236-05:0055th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">Preliminary information of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">55th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">be held</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;"> 30 October - 2 November 2014 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">in Austin, Texas is available at: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sochistdisc.org/2014_annual_meeting.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.sochistdisc.<wbr></wbr>org/2014_annual_meeting.htm</a> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The anchor of the Santa María now rests in the <br />Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.</td></tr>
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Underwater archaeologist Barry Clifford has recently announced the discovery of what he believes is the <i>Santa María</i>, Christopher Columbus's flagship from his epochal 1492 expedition. Clifford and his team found the debris from the wreckage off the northern coast of Haiti, near Cap-Haïtien.<br />
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The ship was wrecked on Christmas Eve, 1492, and sank the next day, after a cabin boy was allowed to steer because all the other sailors were asleep from the festivities of the day. Columbus ordered the deck timbers salvaged to create the first European settlement in the Caribbean, named La Navidad ("Christmas"). Archaeological evidence has located La Navidad nearby.<br />
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Clifford believes the remains of the <i>Santa María</i> are lodged on a coral reef about ten to fifteen feet below the water's surface. Photos of the site in 2003 show a lombard canon, which Clifford avers has now been looted from the site. Clifford says that, "All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus' famous flagship, the <i>Santa Maria</i>." <br />
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Laurence Bergreen, author of <i>Columbus: The Four Voyages</i>, is more skeptical. He wonders how much of the ship would remain, given its age, the influence of earthquakes and hurricanes, and that most of the wood from the ship was used for La Navidad (and want was not used for lumber, he believes, would have rotted away). Bergreen also comments on the lombard canon from 2003 have disappeared: "But now the lombards, if that's what they were, are gone. There's not much left to go on."<br />
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Clifford has tried to interest the Haitian government in protecting and excavating the site. He said, "The Haitian government has been extremely helpful–and we now need to continue working with them to carry out a detailed archaeological excavation of the wreck." Bergreen agrees that more investigation is needed: "Given its potential historic significance, let's hope this wreck will finally receive the careful and responsible attention it deserves."<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.history.com/news/has-wreckage-of-christopher-columbus-flagship-been-found">"Has Wreckage of Christopher Columbus’ Flagship Been Found?" by Barbara Maranzani, History.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/exclusive-found-after-500-years-the-wreck-of-christopher-columbuss-flagship-the-santa-maria-9359330.html">"Exclusive: Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbus’s flagship the <i>Santa Maria</i>," by David Keys, <i>The Independent</i> (UK)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2626656/Has-ship-Columbus-sailed-discover-America-Wreck-coast-Haiti-believed-Santa-Maria.html">"Has the ship Columbus discovered the New World in been found? Wreck found off the coast of Haiti believed to be 500 year old <i>Santa Maria</i>" by Mark Prigg, <i>Daily Mail</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629071/Columbus-Santa-Maria-LOOTED-needs-excavated-Diver-claims-500-year-old-wreck-says-ship-preserved-immediately.html">"Columbus’ <i>Santa Maria</i> has been already been LOOTED: Diver who claims to have found 500-year-old wreck says ship must be preserved immediately," by Darren Boyle, <i>Daily Mail</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/opinion/bergreen-columbus-santa-maria-wreck/">"Is shipwreck really the <i>Santa Maria</i>?" by Laurence Bergreen, CNNOpinion</a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-42927301025130386492014-04-15T17:30:00.002-05:002014-04-15T17:30:50.211-05:00Women, exploration and discovery: Special panel/issue to be published in Terrae Incognitae<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858),<br />an Austrian explorer and author.</td></tr>
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Proposals are being sought for a panel dedicated to women explorers, travelers, cartographers, etc., who contributed to or participated in the exploration and discovery of our world, its lands and oceans, at the <a href="http://www.sochistdisc.org/2014_annual_meeting_call_for_papers.htm">2014 annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries</a> (October 30-November 2, 2014, in Austin, Texas). Peer-reviewed, article-length submissions will be published in a special issue of <i><a href="http://www.sochistdisc.org/terrae_incognitae/terrae-incognitae.htm">Terrae Incognitae</a></i>, vol. 48.1.<br />
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Three-hundred-word proposals accompanied by a brief biographical abstract should be received by May 15, 2014, via email to Dr. Lauren Beck (<a href="mailto:lbeck@mta.ca">lbeck@mta.ca</a>). Ideally contributors will both present their research and see it published in the journal, but if this is not possible, please email the editor for further information.<br />
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-61499864461012697602014-04-11T17:20:00.004-05:002014-04-11T17:20:50.351-05:00The Hidden World of Women Cartographers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In <i>Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography</i>, author Will C. Van Den Hoonaard suggests the thirteenth-century Ebstorf <i>mappa mundi</i> may have been created by the nuns of the Ebstorf abbey. </td></tr>
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Will C. Van Den Hoonaard has written a recently published work that researches the oft-overlooked contribution of women to the history of cartography. Titled <i>Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography</i>, printed by the Wilfrid Laurier University Press, it covers female cartographers, explorers, and geographers from the sixteenth-century till today. It offers an intriguing take, too, on how gender may be used to interpret maps.<br />
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<li><a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/30/shining-a-light-on-the-hidden-world-of-women-cartographers/">"Mapping Out the Hidden World of Women Cartographers" by Cathy Newman, <i>National Geographic Magazine</i></a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-20590086869685199342014-02-21T15:12:00.002-06:002014-02-21T15:12:38.261-06:00Marginalia in cARTography<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example of map marginalia, the hard-working Niagara Falls beavers from Herman Moll's<br /> <i>A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of America</i> (1715).</td></tr>
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The <a href="http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/">Chazen Museum of Art</a> at the <a href="http://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> is hosting an exhibit entitled "<a href="http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/visit/events-calendar/event/marginalia-in-cartography/">Marginalia in cARTography</a>" from February 28 to May 18, 2014, in the Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gallery. Marginalia in cARTography focuses on the artistic images that inhabit the edges, margins, and empty spaces on maps from the middle ages to the twentieth century. These images, says guest curator and art historian Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, "should be regarded not only as part of the map, but as elements that lead to a better understanding of the region mapped, of the cartographers and their collaborators, of their aesthetic sense, and of the world in which they were made."<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/visit/events-calendar/event/marginalia-in-cartography/">Marginalia in cARTography</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/images/uploads/Files/Marginalia_in_cARTography_F-opt.pdf">"Marginalia in cARTography" exhibition catalog by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez</a> (low-resolution version)</li>
<li><a href="https://uwmadison.app.box.com/marginalia">"Marginalia in cARTography" exhibition catalog by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez</a> (high-resolution version)</li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-13321675696339981612014-01-30T16:43:00.000-06:002014-01-30T16:45:34.729-06:00Terra Incognita to Australia<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Archipelagus_Orientalis_sive_Asiaticus_1659_-_Atlas_of_the_Great_Elector.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Archipelagus_Orientalis_sive_Asiaticus_1659_-_Atlas_of_the_Great_Elector.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus</i> by Johannes Blaeu (1659)</td></tr>
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The <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/">National Library</a> in Canberra is currently exhibiting a large and magnificent collection of some of the world's greatest and rarest maps under the title of "<a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world">Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia</a>." The exhibit hosts treasures such as an eleventh-century Macrobius-style chart, a thirteenth-century Psalter map, and the fifteenth-century Fra Mauro map on the early end of the Age of Discovery, down to maps by explorers Captain James Cook and Matthew Flinders. The exhibition, which is open until March 10, 2014, was opened in November 2013 by film star <a href="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/russell-crowe-says-hes-a-map-geek-at-launch-of-national-library-exhibition-of-early-maps-of-australia/story-e6frfmqi-1226754568537">Russell Crowe</a>, who exclaimed he was a "map geek."<br />
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Maps range from charts made by Australia's Aborigines, to sea charts, to great world maps showing Australia as blank conjectures. Artifacts include chronometers, bowls from the Dutch East India Company, and mariner’s calipers. Online extras for "Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia" include YouTube <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world/videos">videos</a>, <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/exhibitions.html">podcasts</a>, <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/nla_mapping_our_world_exhibition_checklist_0.pdf">checklists</a>, and <a href="http://mappingourworld.esriaustralia.com.au/">interactive maps</a>. <br />
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Head of maps at the British Library Peter Barber said: "You wouldn't get this exhibition in Europe because the institutions would never lend." The National Library’s curator of maps, Martin Woods, gushed, "I don't know how much more excited I could be!"<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world">Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita</a> to Australia at the <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/">National Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/mapping-our-world/highlights">Mapping Our World: exhibition highlights</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/russell-crowe-in-canberra-to-launch-national-library-of-australias-summer-blockbuster-20131106-2x1l1.html">"Russell Crowe in Canberra to launch National Library of Australia's summer blockbuster," The Sydney Morning Herald, by Natasha Rudra and Sally Pryor</a></li>
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<br />SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-67545253179837694062014-01-21T17:24:00.001-06:002014-01-21T17:25:50.789-06:00Does a kangaroo in 400-year-old manuscript prove the Portuguese discovered Australia?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A kangaroo in a circa 1600 sheet of processional music from Portugal?<br />
If so, it could prove the Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Australia.<br />
(Source: <a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/">Les Enluminures Gallery</a>)</td></tr>
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An illuminated manuscript recently acquired by the <a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/">Les Enluminures Gallery</a> in New York which dates to between 1580 and 1620 has a drawing in a capital letter of an animal that looks conceivably like a kangaroo (or wallaby) munching on a plant. If it is a kangaroo, it may be persuasive evidence that the Portuguese reached Australia before the first accepted European landing there by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606.<br />
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The manuscript, a sheet of liturgical music, also has a images of half-naked men wearing a chaplet of leaves that could be a depiction of Australian aborigines. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Australian aboriginie?<br />
(Source: <a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/">Les Enluminures Gallery</a>)</td></tr>
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Laura Light, a researcher at the Les Enluminures Gallery, said that "a kangaroo or wallaby in a manuscript this early is proof that the artist of this manuscript had either been in Australia, or even more interestingly, that travellers' reports and drawings of the interesting animals found in this new world were already available in Portugal." The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_Portuguese_discovery_of_Australia">theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia</a> has been around for at least two centuries, but still lacks definitive proof.<br />
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Dr. Martin Woods of the National Library of Australia said the kangaroo-like animal could be "another animal in south-east Asia, like any number of deer species." Dr. Peter Pridmore of La Trobe University <a href="http://www.livescience.com/42685-thats-no-kangaroo-on-the-manuscript-so-what-is-it.html">suggests that the animal depicted could be an aardvark</a>.<br />
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Les Enluminures Gallery plans to display the manuscript, with many others from January 24 to February 21, 2014, in an exhibit entitled "<a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/expodetail.php?cat=coming&expoid=44&">Sacred Song: Chanting the Bible in the Middle Ages and Renaissance</a>."<br />
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The debate about the possible European discovery of Australia before 1606 continues.<br />
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<li>"<a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/expodetail.php?cat=coming&expoid=44&">Sacred Song: Chanting the Bible in the Middle Ages and Renaissance</a>" at <a href="http://www.lesenluminures.com/">Les Enluminures Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/16thcentury-manuscript-could-rewrite-australian-history-20140115-30vak.html">"16th-century manuscript could rewrite Australian history," <i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i>, by Charli Newton</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10575227/Kangaroo-in-400-year-old-manuscript-could-change-Australian-history.html">"Kangaroo in 400-year-old manuscript could change Australian history," <i>The Telegraph</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25763688">"Does tiny kangaroo show Portuguese got to Australia first?," BBC News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://theconversation.com/thats-no-kangaroo-on-the-manuscript-so-what-is-it-22115">"That’s no kangaroo on the manuscript – so what is it?,"</a> <a href="http://theconversation.com/uk">The Conversation</a>, by <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/scitecheng/about/staff/profile?uname=PAPridmore">Peter Pridmore</a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-74524542678027737022014-01-17T14:42:00.000-06:002014-01-17T14:42:00.749-06:00The International Society for the History of the Map's Discussion List: New E-Mail Listserv<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A large number of individuals miss the old MapHist<a href=""></a> e-mail listserv. The <a href="http://www.sochistdisc.org/">Society for the History of Discoveries</a> is pleased to pass along the announcement that the <a href="http://ishm.elte.hu/">International Society for the History of the Map</a> </span>(ISHMap<a href=""></a>)<span style="font-family: inherit;"> has opened a new e-mail listserv. Sign-up information is at:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://lazarus.elte.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ishm" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">http://lazarus.elte.hu/cgi-<wbr></wbr>bin/mailman/listinfo/ishm</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Welcome you at our re-opened, free and open discussion list, hosted by the International<a href=""></a> Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap<a href=""></a>). After the short test period the Moderators invite you to contribute to the discussion<a href=""></a>.<br /><br />Please, send your messages to the list - and reach the global community of historians<a href=""></a> of the map. The list is devoted to international<a href=""></a> scholarly communication regarding the history of the map. For more information visit the Society website.<br /><br />Best wishes for 2014 with ISHMap<a href=""></a>-List,<br /><br />Sarah, Thomas and Zsolt<a href=""></a><br />(The Moderators)</span></div>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-25769963972880463402014-01-17T14:30:00.001-06:002014-01-17T14:30:11.827-06:00Mapping Nature Across the Americas at the Newberry Library<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Alexander_von_Humboldt_-_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_in_den_Tropen-Laendern_-_stacked.jpg/1280px-Alexander_von_Humboldt_-_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_in_den_Tropen-Laendern_-_stacked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Alexander_von_Humboldt_-_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_in_den_Tropen-Laendern_-_stacked.jpg/1280px-Alexander_von_Humboldt_-_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_in_den_Tropen-Laendern_-_stacked.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Geographie der Pflanzen in den Tropen-Ländern</i>, <br />Louis Bouquet after Alexander von Humboldt, Schönberger and Turpin (1807).</span></td></tr>
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<li><a href="http://www.newberry.org/mappingnature"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mapping Nature Across the Americas</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://newberry.org/sites/default/files/calendar-attachments/Summer%20Institute%202014%20Mailer.pdf"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Publicity flyer</span></a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-19279117316145199162013-11-20T22:21:00.001-06:002013-11-20T22:32:16.945-06:00The Monsters of Olaus Magnus’ 1539 Map<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monsters and maps. (Click here for <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/olaus_magnus_carta_marina_sea_monsters_on_a_gorgeous_renaissance_map.html">an interactive version</a>.)<br />
Olaus Magnus, <i>Carta Marina...</i>, 1539.</td></tr>
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In 1538, after twelve years of work, Swedish Catholic priest Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) had his large map of the Nordic northland published in Venice. The numerous sea monsters, land creatures, and vignettes immediately capture a viewer's attention. The <i>Carta Marina</i>, as it was called, is made up of nine large woodblock-printed sheets, measuring about 5.5 feet wide and 4 feet high (1.70 m by 1.25 m). The editions that have come down to the present, housed in Munich and Uppsala, are delightfully covered. <br />
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The full name of the map is: <i>Carta marina et Descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum ac mirabilium rerum in eis contentarum, diligentissime elaborata Anno Domini 1539 Veneciis liberalitate Reverendissimi Domini Ieronimi Quirini</i> ("A Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through the generous assistance of the Most Honourable Lord and Patriarch Hieronymo Quirino"). It was the first map printed in the south of Europe to show extensive and accurate detail as well as place-names. Olaus Magnus also penned a book titled <i>Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus</i> ("A Description of the Northern Peoples"), which was printed in 1555.<br />
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Scholar <a href="http://www.josephnigg.com/bio.htm">Joseph Nigg</a> has just released a book about the <i>Carta Marina</i> with the University of Chicago Press called <i><a href="http://www.josephnigg.com/sea_monsters__a_voyage_around_the_world_s_most_beguiling_map_120529.htm">Sea Monsters: A Voyage Around the World’s Most Beguiling Map</a></i>. The online newsmagazine <i>Slate</i> has posted a short introduction to the map, complete with <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/olaus_magnus_carta_marina_sea_monsters_on_a_gorgeous_renaissance_map.html">a fully zoomable and clickable depiction</a> of some of its monstrous creatures.<br />
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<a href="https://brown.academia.edu/ChetVanDuzer">Chet Van Duzer</a>, a scholar at the Library of Congress, has also recently published a book about sea monsters on maps titled, <i><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo15607926.html">Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps</a></i>. As Van Duzer notes: "The creatures look purely fantastic. They all look like they were just made up. But, in fact, a lot of them come from what were considered, at the time, scientific sources."<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/olaus_magnus_carta_marina_sea_monsters_on_a_gorgeous_renaissance_map.html">"Here Be Duck Trees and Sea Swine: An interactive Renaissance map filled with strange and wonderful monsters," <i>Slate</i>, by Joseph Nigg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.livescience.com/39465-sea-monsters-on-medieval-maps.html">"Here Be Dragons: The Evolution of Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps," <i>LiveScience</i>, Tanya Lewis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/the-enchanting-sea-monsters-on-medieval-maps/">"The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps," Smithsonian.com, Hannah Waters</a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-69916804773478619522013-11-10T20:24:00.001-06:002013-11-10T20:25:04.168-06:00The Influence of Greco-Roman Mapping on the First European Age of Exploration<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ptolemy's world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy's <i>Geographia</i> in the 15th century</td></tr>
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The <a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu//">Institute for the Study of the Ancient World</a> at <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/">New York University</a> is hosting an exhibit on the legacy of Greco-Roman mapmaking, and, since many of our surviving examples of such maps are recreations from the Renaissance, how the cartography of Greece and Rome was rediscovered and utilized in a whole new era.<br />
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The exhibit, titled "<a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/">Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity</a>" is located in Manhattan and runs through January 5, 2014, but has a very strong web presence. Included online are <a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/banners.html">copies of the printed material</a>, <a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/online.html">online resources</a>, <a href="http://youtu.be/xt8Na4BJ_Dg">a YouTube video</a>, and an extensive <a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/checklist.html">checklist of objects on display</a>.<br />
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Roger S. Bagnall, a director at the institute, noted that "Our exhibitions and digital teams present a 21st-century approach to the ancient mentality concerning geographic space and how it is represented." Scholars should, when possible, try to see the world in the eyes of the historical subjects they are researching. One of the exhibit's guest curators said that "Geography is not just maps. There is also the cognitive side underlying mapping." <br />
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As <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/john_noble_wilford/index.html">John Wilford Noble</a> notes in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html"><i>New York Times</i> piece on the exhibit</a>, the worldview and conceptions of the classical thinkers deeply influenced the explorers of the first European Age of Exploration. Wilford notes: "Even Ptolemy’s errors were influential. Instead of sticking to Eratosthenes’ more accurate estimate of Earth’s size, Ptolemy handed down a serious underestimate that later apparently emboldened Columbus to think he could sail west to reach China or Japan."<br />
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<li><a href="http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/">Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity</a> at ISAW</li>
<li><a href="http://youtu.be/xt8Na4BJ_Dg">Measuring and Mapping Space video</a> on YouTube</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html">"The World as They Knew It: The Legacy of Greco-Roman Mapmaking," <i>New York Times</i>, by John Wilford Noble</a></li>
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<br />SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-4264307168869658352013-10-30T23:05:00.002-05:002013-11-10T20:16:32.020-06:00Penn Museum's Great Voyages: Travels, Triumphs, and Tragedies Lecture Series<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gilgamesh, the first explorer?</span><br />
(Source: <i>The Chaldean Account of Genesis</i>, 1876)</td></tr>
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, commonly called <a href="http://www.penn.museum/about-us.html">Penn Museum</a>, is hosting a monthly lecture series through June 2014 titled <a href="http://www.penn.museum/college-and-adults/great-voyages.html">Great Voyages: Travels, Triumphs, and Tragedies</a>. The series will feature a range of topics by experts in several fields. The upcoming lectures are:<br />
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November 6<br />
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Associate Professor, History, Bryn Mawr College<br />
Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1519–1522<br />
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December 4<br />
Paul Cobb, Professor, Islamic History, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Traveler's Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battuta<br />
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January 8<br />
Steve Tinney, Associate Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Babylonian Section<br />
Gilgamesh: Journeys to the End of the World<br />
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February 5<br />
Robert Ballard, Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the Graduate school of Oceanography at URI, and President of Ocean Exploration Trust<br />
Lost History Beneath the Sea from Titanic to the Iron Age<br />
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March 5<br />
Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum American Section<br />
Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki: A Grand Experiment in Archaeology<br />
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April 2<br />
Peter Struck, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania<br />
The Odyssey, Nostalgia, and the Lost Home<br />
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May 7<br />
Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section<br />
Searching for the Golden Fleece with Jason and the Argonauts<br />
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June 4<br />
Michael Weisberg, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Darwin's Beagle Voyage<br />
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Check out <a href="http://www.penn.museum/press-releases/991-great-voyages.html">Penn Museum's website for further details</a>.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.penn.museum/college-and-adults/great-voyages.html">Great Voyages: Travels, Triumphs, and Tragedies</a> at Penn Museum</li>
<li><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2013-10-03/latest-news/voyages-and-volcanoes-star-museum-series">"Voyages and volcanoes star in Museum series," <i>Penn Current</i>, by Maria Zankey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.penn.museum/">University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</a></li>
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<br />SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-25041637533796048762013-10-14T22:53:00.002-05:002013-10-14T22:53:33.524-05:00Osher Map Library Presents "To the Ends of the Earth and Back"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mercator's view of the North Pole.<br />Gerardus Mercator, <i>Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio</i>, 1623.</td></tr>
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The <a href="http://oshermaps.org/">Osher Map Library</a> at the <a href="http://usm.maine.edu/">University of Southern Maine</a> in Portland, Maine, is now hosting an exhibit titled: "<a href="http://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/to-the-ends-of-the-earth">To the Ends of the Earth... and Back: Selections from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection</a>," highlighting the centuries old quest to understand, map, and explore the Earth's polar regions.<br />
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"To the Ends of the Earth" showcases more than eighty maps, charts, photographs, and other artifacts, from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection. The exhibit is on view through February 27, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Tuesdays to Thursdays (with tours available by appointment). <br />
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<li><a href="http://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/to-the-ends-of-the-earth">"To the Ends of the Earth... and Back: Selections from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection"</a> at the <a href="http://oshermaps.org/">Osher Map Library</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.usm.maine.edu/publicaffairs/osher-map-library-exhibition-looks-polar-exploration-0">"Osher Map Library Exhibition Looks at Polar Exploration," University of Southern Maine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/life/osher-puts-polar-exploration-on-the-map_2013-09-26.html">"Osher show puts polar exploration on the map," Portland Press Herald by Bob Keyes</a></li>
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SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-920724742856120814.post-27829066238179555602013-09-29T15:09:00.001-05:002013-09-29T15:09:27.357-05:00Atlas of True Names<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names_World.html"><i>Atlas of True Names: World Map</i></a> (2008) from <a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html">Kalimedia</a><br />(click to enlarge)</td></tr>
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Explorers and cartographers, and those who study them, like members of the Society for the History of Discoveries, are often awash in place-names. Toponyms tell us about the history of a place, who named it, why they named it, etc. Explorers, like Columbus or La Salle or Cook gave names, recorded indigenous names, and mapmakers adopted and/or altered the geographical information they received.<br />
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But what do the names <i>mean</i>? <a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/Contact.html">Stephan Hormes and Silke Puest</a> at <a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/index.html">Kalimedia</a> have created a wonderful series of maps they call an "<a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html">Atlas of True Names</a>." They've replaced place-names like Reykjavik and and Washington with their true meanings, "Smoky Place" and "Marshton." The Atlantic Ocean becomes "World Stream by the Mountain of Mountains." Portugal is "Warm Port." <br />
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Check out their <a href="http://i.imgur.com/fKHlK.jpg">world map of True Names</a><br />
And visit their website for <a href="http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html">more examples from their Atlas of True Names</a>SHD Blog Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331568720368007318noreply@blogger.com0