A What Line?
According to wikipedia, our newletter's name is a synonym for a loxodrome, a line crossing all meridians (latitudes) at the same angle. More details (and a hint about our logo) can be found at the web site of Instituto Camões.
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Coming Events
This section provides brief information to New York Map Society members and other site visitors about events that may be of interest. However, these events are not sponsored by the Society. The New York Map Society's own meeting schedule is given on our Meetings page.
Festival of Maps
November 2, 2007, Continuing into 2008
November 2007 in Chicago will be a wonderful time for historians of discoveries, cartographers, and map aficionados. For it will mark the time of the Festival of Maps, Chicago—a multi-event extravaganza that cannot be missed. Among the Festival highlights are:
- Newberry Library: Two major exhibitions will be on display.
- Sixteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography, organized by Professor Richard Talbert of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. More details at http://www.newberry.org/smith/nebenzahl/neb16.html.
- Field Museum: A major exhibition, simply called “Maps” of over 100 of the world's most significant maps, assembled from worldwide public and private collections.
- SHD (Society for the History of Discoveries): The Society will hold its 48th Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Festival. The SHD meeting begins with a dinner on the night of Sunday November 11, and concludes at mid-day on Tuesday November 13. The SHD website at http://www.sochistdisc.org/annual_meetings/annual_2007/annual_meeting_2007.htm has more details, including a Call for Papers and information about hotel accommodations.
The Festival of Maps website at http://festivalofmaps.org/ is still under construction. Once all event/function planning is complete, a Registration Form will be finalized and posted to the SHD website above. Registrations for the SHD Meeting and the Nebenzahl Lectures will be handled by the Newberry Library.
A New World: England's First View of America
March 6 - June 1, 2008
The exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art is a once-in-a-lifetime event. The exhibit features nearly 100 watercolors by Elizabethan artist John White, and constitutes the only surviving visual record of England's first settlement in America. The exhibition includes drawings of White's Algonquin Indians, as well as rare maps, charts, and associated work by White's contemporaries.
Visit the xxx website at http://ycba.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition_current.asp for further details.
Baltimore Festival of Maps
March 16 - June 8, 2008
The main site is the Walters Art Museum, but over twenty other institutions will take part, including:
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Historical Electronics Museum
- Jewish Museum of Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University
Visit the Festival's website at http://www.baltimorefestivalofmaps.com for more details.
New York Antiquarian Book Fair
April 4 - 6, 2008
For more details about the event, visit http://www.sanfordsmith.com/antiquarian_info.html. Check the Exhibitor List for map dealers exhibiting at the Fair, with links to each exhibitor's website.
Book ReportBooks written by past and future New York Map Society guest speakers. Meeting date indicated (in parentheses). Links, when available, are to the book listing on the amazon.com web site. | |
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Peter Dickson (May, 2007) The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemüller Map of 1507 Privately Printed | |
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John Garver (August, 2007) Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930 Commonwealth Editions (hard cover) |
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John W. Hessler (November, 2007) The Naming of America: Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio Library of Congress |
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Seymour I. Schwartz (December, 2006) Prometheus Books (hard cover) |
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Vincent Virga and Ron Grim (February, 2008) Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations Little, Brown and Company (hard cover) |
New Map Society Bylaws
The revised New York Map Society Bylaws were reviewed at our January 2007 meeting, and members voted unanimously to accept them.
Annual Report for 2006
President Sy Amkraut's 2006 Annual Report was also presented at the January meeting.