Until March 8, 2020, the Talking Maps exhibition can be visited at the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford). From the funds of the institution, this exhibition brings together a selection of ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps of different cultures and in different formats, as well as fascinating war maps, fictional maps and even imaginary maps. […]
In the year 2019 marks the fifth centenary of the start of the naval expedition initially led by the Portuguese navigator in the service of the Spanish Crown, Fernando de Magallanes, with the purpose of opening a new route to the Spice Islands. The trip ended three years later, on September 6, 1522, under the […]
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 3rd session of the 1st cycle Dialogues between literature and science: the measurement and representation of the world, we will talk about the figure of the cartographer and navigator Juan de la Cosa (Santoña, between 1450 and 1460-Turbaco, 1510), known for having participated in seven of the first trips to America and for […]
In the 2nd session of the 1st cycle of Dialogues between literature and science: the measurement and representation of the world, we will talk about the expedition that the Academy of Sciences of Paris carried out in Ecuador for the measurement of a degree of latitude during the first half 18th century. On the table […]
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 programme of American Geographical Society Grants (AGS) Library Research is designed to offer to researchers an opportunity to continue their work helping them to access to primary sources of high level. Each year are given between four and eight grants for periods among two and four weeks. Any qualified research can access and the […]
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 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 Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) offers a series of fellowships for bibliographic research. Bibliographic projects can refer to a wide variety of objects, including maps, of all time and in any format provided that they include the analysis of the physical object as historical evidence. Fellowships can be used to finance travel to collections […]