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Film, Video Exploring Waldseemuller's World: Sources and Texts

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Title

  • Exploring Waldseemuller's World: Sources and Texts

Summary

  • Prominent scholars gathered at the Library to examine Waldseemuller's cartographic vision and to reflect on the philosophical and historical context of the map's production and reception. Experts spoke on a wide range of topics, from the history of exploration and German Humanism to the mathematical and astronomical basis of early 16th-century cartography. Using the first session on the transmission of texts as a general theoretical framework, speakers in this session specifically discussed Waldseemuller's sources, both textual and cartographic. The complexity of his sources is something that has yet to be studied in any coherent, scholarly way, and these papers aimed to provide the basis for further research in this area.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-05-15.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education
  • -  Maps

Notes

  • -  Group name: Exploring Waldseemuller's World symposium.
  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Various.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-05-15.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688246

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division. Exploring Waldseemuller's World: Sources and Texts. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-15, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688246/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division, S. B. (2009) Exploring Waldseemuller's World: Sources and Texts. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-15. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688246/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division. Exploring Waldseemuller's World: Sources and Texts. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-15, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688246/>.