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Models of the Cosmos: On Globes and Their Maling, Brussels Map Circle annual conference


Brussels, Belgium
Organisation: The Brussels Map CIrcle (BIMCC)
Download the handout of the conference here.

Programme

  • 9:15 - Welcome address
  • 9:30 - Wouter Bracke, New Findings on Two KBR Cimelia: The Sanuto and the Mercator Gores
  • 10:00 - Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Who Made the Murad III Globes and Armillary Sphere in 1579? Toward a New Attribution
  • 10:30 - Break
  • 11:00 - Colin Dupont, Globes by Merzbach and Falk-Fabian and the Institut national de géographie (Brussels, 1875-1898): a Success Story?
  • 11:30 - Willem Jan Neutelings, Around the World in 200 Globes, Stories of the Twentieth Century
  • 12:00 - Thomas Horst and Martina Pippal, The Hunt Lenox Globe and its Replicas – New Scientific Results and an Accidental Find
  • 12:30 - End

Registration: If you would like to join this event please advice our Secretary Marie-Anne Dage.
Free for members and KBR staff. Accompanying persons and non-Members are invited to pay EUR 20.00 on our bank account IBAN BE52 0682 4754 2209 | BIC: GKCCBEBB and to mention in the bank transfer 'Conference 2025' and the name of the person.
Venue: KBR (Royal Library of Belgium)
Contact: Marie-Anne Dage
E-mail: marie.anne.dage@gmail.com
Time schedule: 9:15-12:30