Next Wednesday, January 29, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., the posthumous book by Tomàs Vidal: Enciclopèdia de Menorca. Tom vint-i-unè. Cartografia històrica will be presented at the Pi i Sunyer Room of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Carme, 47, Barcelona) as an act in memory of GEHC member Tomàs Vidal (1941-2019). They will intervene: Vicenç M. Rosselló […]
Recently El País colecciones has launched a new collectible entitled Grandes Mapas de la Historia focused on maps and telling the history of humanity through cartography. The collection is technically advised by GEHC member Barbara Polo. There are 40 weekly deliveries planned (a hardcover fascicle and a large format map) until July 2020. On this […]
The next May, 29th at 17:00, the Belgian professor Stefaan Missine will present the book The Da Vinci Globe, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing the last autumn. The presentation has been organised by the GEHC and it will take place at room 401 in Facultat de Geografia i Història of Barcelona University (Carrer Montalegre 6, Barcelona). The act coincides with the […]
As we announced here, the last January, 16th the presentation of the book History of urban cartography in Spain: models and realizations had place in the Government Delegation of Catalonia. The act was presented by the Government Delegate, Teresa Cunillera Mestres; the director of the Development Area of the Government Delegation, Estanislau Vidal-Folch de Balanzó, moderated it; and participated […]
The Vinland map is a controversial and famous world map because it would show the arrival of navigants to America in 11th century. It is accepted that it is a fake but it continues being an issue of interest. John Paul Floyd, a Scottish researcher interested in weird books and erudite mysteries, has just published A Sorry […]