Chet Van Duzer - “New Light on Henries Marcellus’ World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral imaging and Early Cartography”
When: November 15 at 6:30PM
Where: Denver Public Library, 5th Floor, Gates Room
This program is free and open to the community.
Chet Van Duzer has published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps in journals such as Imago Mundi, Terrae Incognitae and Word & Image. He is also the author of Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study, and (with John Hessler) Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps. His book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps was published in 2013 by the British Library. In 2014, the Library of Congress published a study of Christopher Columbus’s Book of Privileges which he co-authored with John Hessler and Daniel De Simone.
His current book projects are a study of Henricus Martellus’s world map of c. 1491 (held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University) based on multispectral imagery, and the commentary for a facsimile of the 1550 manuscript world map by Pierre Desceliers, which will be published by the British Library. Mr. Van Duzer will talk about this project, explain why he felt that the Martellus map was an excellent candidate for multispectral images, show some of the results, and give an account of the place of the Martellus map in late 15th and early 16th century cartography.
Event: There will be an informal celebration of RMMS’ 25th anniversary at Pints Pub, 221 W. 13th Avenue (a short walk from the library) following Chet’s talk, so you can keep your parking spot. No reservations, but please RSVP to Wes Brown if you can make it. RMMS has a private room that holds up to 33 people, and you can order off the menu (drinks are extra).
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