Newsletter No 31

Titles of articles

Exploring places with maps

• A rewarding discovery – The Museum of Maps in Bucharest

History of Cartography

• The importance of maps at the Battle of Waterloo

Looks at books

• Descriptio Romaniae
• Fra Mauro’s World Map
• Ptolemy’s Handbook of Geography
• The Book of Sea Charts
• The Island of Mallorca on Maps from the end of the 15th century to about 1700
• Timor: 1250 - 2005

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Exhibition at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas: The 17 Provinces on old maps

Miscellaneous

• 10th Map Evening — The effect of the glasses