Africa & Middle East Division, LOC | Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwright, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize

Waldseemuller’s Map of America – John Hessler | C-SPAN.org

May 17, 2013
Panelists talked about a map made in 1507 by German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller. It is considered one of the world’s rarest maps and believed to be the first map to name America. They discussed the history and unanswered questions surrounding Waldseemuller’s maps, and also spoke about the collection of Renaissance globe-maker and mathematician Johannes Schoner, who was the original owner of Waldseemuller’s maps. This program was part of an event hosted by the Library of Congress and the John Carter Brown Library.

See related:

• Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communitie
• Warping Waldseemuller: Computer Modeling and the Quest to Understand the 1507 and 1516 World Maps | Library of Congress
  Library of Congress Officially Received 1507 Waldseemuller World Map | Library of Congress
• The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas

and

• How a 1507 German Map Became America’s Birth Certificate
• Exploring Waldseemuller’s World: Sources and Texts | Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Officially Received 1507 Waldseemuller World Map | Library of Congress
• Schöner Sammelband – Waldseemüller Maps – Exploring the Early Americas | Exhibitions – Library of Congress
• “Cosmographiae Introductio” by Martin Waldseemuller and Mathias Ringmann – Bookworm History
• El mapa Waldseemuller
• OLDEST MAP depicting America!!! 5 Feet Tall!
• Book TV: Toby Lester – The Fourth Part of the World

Maps, Geography and Cartography

The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas

Library of Congress – Jun 10, 2022

Lecture by Library of Congress curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection, John Hessler, Ptolemy and the Foundations of Western Cartography, including images of these rare atlases printed between 1475 and 1600 which have never been shown together as a complete group. Opening remarks by Associate Librarian of Congress, Robin Dale, and closing remarks by Mark Dimunation, Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions. For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10300

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Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale

Library of Congress – Feb 27, 2019

Chet Van Duzer discusses his new book on Henricus Martellus’ influential 1491 world map. Many texts on Martellus’ map are illegible due to fading and damage, making its exact place in Renaissance cartography impossible to determine. However, recent multispectral imaging of the map has rendered most of the previously illegible texts on the map legible. Van Duzer explained the process of multispectral imaging and how the results have enabled him to situate the Martellus map in late 15th- and early 16th-century cartography. For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feat…

See related:

• Seeing the World Anew: John W. Hessler, Chet Van Duzer
• Martin Waldseemuller’s Carta Marina: Its Originality and Diffusion | Chet Van Duzer
• 3 Chet Van Duzer – BAM Group February 5, 2022
• Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale
• Frames That Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches | Chet Van Duzer

as well as:

• The World in Maps, 1400-1600 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communities
  and
• Early Days in African Historical Cartography ~ From the Portolan Charts to Printed Maps: Imagining and Imaging Africa in the Atlantic System