From owner-discovery@win.tue.nl Thu Aug 12 13:03:02 1999 Received: from majordom@svin12 [131.155.71.135] by svfile1.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for id NAA07802 (ESMTP). Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:03:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from majordom@localhost by svin12.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for discovery-list id MAA09013. Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from engels@wsinfm15 [131.155.69.168] by svin12.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for id MAA09009 (ESMTP). Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from engels@localhost by wsinfm15.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for discovery id MAA29813. Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: engels@win.tue.nl (Andre Engels) Message-Id: <199908121055.MAA29813@wsinfm15.win.tue.nl> Subject: [EXP] E.G.R. Taylor and the Vinland Map (Fwd) To: discovery@win.tue.nl Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:21 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-discovery@win.tue.nl Precedence: bulk Reply-To: discovery@win.tue.nl Status: RO The original message was refused because the sender is not a member of this list. This measure saves us spam, but some bona fide messages, like this one, are victims as well. Andre Engels, moderator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The annual E.G.R. Taylor Lecture, which is hosted (in rotation) by The > Hakluyt Society, The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of > British Geographers), The Royal Institute of Navigation, and by the > Society for Nautical Research, is this year to be given on Tuesday 30 > November by Michael W. Richey who will speak on 'E.G.R.Taylor and the > Vinland Map'. > > Michael Richey was the Director of RIN from 1947 to 1983, is a Gold > Medallist of that Institute, an experienced solo trans-Atlantic navigator, > and co-author with Professor Eva Taylor for 'The geometrical seaman: a > book of early nautical instruments' (London: Hollis & Carter, for the > Institute of Navigation, 1962). He also worked closely with Professor > Taylor to see through the press her 'The mathematical practitioners of > Hanoverian England, 1714-1840 (Cambridge University Press, for the > Institute of Navigation, 1966). > > The 'Society autumn lectures' announcement of the Society for Nautical > Research notes: "In 1965 Yale University announced the discovery of a map, > provisionally dated about 1450, which portrayed the unidentified island of > Vinland discovered by the Vikings 1000 years ago, which would have been > the earliest example of a map portraying any part of the Americas, as well > as the earliest evidence for a Norse school of cartography. Michael > Richey, who completed Professor Taylor's work when she suffered a > debilitating stroke, will show how she deduced that the map was a > forgery". A reminder here that a review of the new edition of 'The > Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation' of R.A. Skelton [et al.] (New Haven > CT; London: Yale University Press, 1995) entitled 'Vinland re-read: review > article' by Paul Saenger is published in 'Imago Mundi: the international > journal for the history of cartography' (London), 1998, 50, pp.199-202 > (possibly still also available on Internet). > > The E.G.R. Taylor Lecture is open free to all at the House of the Royal > Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 > Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR at 6.30pm on Tuesday 30 November 1999. > For those who wish to book for the dinner after the Lecture, please > contact the Events Office, RGS, tel. [44]-171-591-3084 (or fax: > [44]-171-591-3001). > > Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG) > f.herbert@rgs.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------