Newsletter No 48

Titles of articles

International Conferences and Study Sessions

• Mapping India, BIMCC International Conference, 7 December 2013, Brussels

Excursions

• A historical week-end in the French Hainaut – 19-20 October 2013

Looks at books

• Maps and pictures of the New Worlds
• New Worlds
• Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps
• Ships on maps of the Middle Ages and the early modern period
• Shorter bibliographical notes
• The golden age of marine charts – When Europe discovered the world
• The passion for collecting: expeditions into the Woldan Collection

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Military engineering and fortress building – fortification plans of Luxembourg in the Berlin State Library
• Atlas of the Netherlands

Miscellaneous

• The ICA conference, Dresden, 25-30 August 2013

History and Cartography

• 1600, the Battle of Nieuwpoort
• The oldest surviving globe showing the New World: c. 1504

How I Got Into Cartography

• Colin Dupont