The Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon, announces the celebration of the third conference on the history of nautical cartography On the origin and evolution of the nautical chart, which will be held at the Instituto Hidrográfico from Lisbon on June 4 and 5, 2020. On this occasion […]
In the 1st session of the 1st cycle of Dialogues between literature and science: the measurement and representation of the world, Lluís Reales, scientific journalist, interview Ramon J. Pujades, an expert in portolan charts and member of GEHC, from whom we have extracted some interesting notes: The portolan chart or “navigation chart” was designed to […]
The french Archives Nationales organize, at their headquarters in Paris, the exhibition Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes: vues et figures de possible espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance. The exhibition focuses on a collection of local and regional maps produced in France between 1300 and 1600 with a marked practical nature: defining boundaries or […]
The next 6th of June the conference Barcelona i la conquesta de Nàpols: El repte d’un canvi geopolític will take place in Barcelona. The conference is organized by the History of Barcelona Museum (MUHBA) and, among other things, our colleage Ramon Pujades will present the cartographic piece recently recover: a map of Italia of Bartolome Pareto made in 1457 in which […]
Until September 29, 2019, you can visit, in the Saló del Tinell in Barcelona, the exhibition The medieval metamorphosis, XIII-XV centuries, from the project Barcelona Mediterranean Capital of the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). Among the materials of the exhibition there are several cartographic pieces of interest: The drawing of 1389 that represents the engraved […]
The next June, 20th and 21st the colloquium TERRITOIRES, RÉGIONS, ROYAUMES : Le développement d’une cartographie locale et régionale dans l’Occident latin et le monde arabe (Xe-XVe siècle) will take place in Tours (Francia). It is organised by the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CERS) and directed by Nathalie Bouloux (CESR), Jean-Charles Ducène (EPHE) and […]