Newsletter No 19

Titles of articles

Looks at books

• The map that changed the world Simon Winchester,
• The Mapmaker's Quest: depicting new worlds in Renaissance Europe, David Buisseret
• Die Welt in alten Karten und Ansichten - Karten und Atlanten in der Landeszentralbibliothek Schleswig-Holstein, Gerhard Kraack and Jens Ahlers
• Les plans de Paris des origines (1493) à la fin du XVIIIe siècle / études, carto-bibliographie, Jean Boutier et al.
• Petermann's Planet - A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings throughout the World, Jürgen Espenhorst
• De familie de Bersacques, Martijn Vandenbroucke
• Imago Poloniae - Das Polnische-Litauische Reich in Karten, Dokumenten and alten Drucken in der Sammlung von Tomasz Niewodniczański and Catalogue of the exhibitionBrückenschlag - Polnische Geschichte in Karten un Dokumenten
• The shaping of Africa - Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Francesc Relaño
• Van Mercator tot computerkaart, een geschiedenis van de cartographie, F. De Puydt and G. Goossens

Map of the Season

• Map of Haynault by Jacques Surhon, 1579

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Plans-reliefs of fortified cities - Permanent exhibition in Lille

Miscellaneous

• Mapping the Antarctic: From fiction to fact, Samuel Humes
• On the centenary of the death of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Peter Daerden