57 - January 2017

International Conferences and Study Sessions

• Globes and Instruments
  International Conference of the Brussels Map Circle (Karen De Coene)

Looks at books

• Joan Binimelis, Vicenç Mut and the wall maps of Majorca (17th – 18th centuries) (Luis Robles-Macias)
• Universal Cosmography according to both ancient and modern navigators by Guillaume Le Testu (Christiane De Craecker-Dussart)
• Treasures from the Map Room - Bodleian Collections (Nicolas Boothby)
• Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni (Alex Smit)
• Philippe Vandermaelen, Mercator of newly-born Belgium. The history of the Établissement géographique de Bruxelles and of its founder (Wulf Bodenstein)

Pictures at an Exhibition

• De glorieuze Nederlanden (Caroline De Candt)

Miscellaneous

• The dissemination of cartographic knowledge - 6th International Symposium on the History of Cartography, Dubrovnik (Caroline and Paul De Candt)
• The map on the scale of the World - Colloquium in Albi, France - A report (Jacques Mille)

History and Cartography

• Old maps only a few mouse clicks away on www.cartesius.be (Claire Dejaeger)
• Studying the production process of the Ferraris Maps (1770s) and its implications for geometric accuracy (Soetkin Vervust)
• The Villaret map (Georges Vande Winkel)
• Other Villaret maps (Jean-Louis Renteux)

How I Got Into Cartography

• How I got into cartography … through a different door! Interview with David Raes (Nicola Boothby)

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