Rare Book Spotlight: Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas (Hybrid)

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday February 24, 2022
      11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Location: Hybrid: Price Gilbert Library, Scholars Event Theater – room 1280 and online
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Summary Sentence: Join us for a virtual exploration and conversation about the Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662-1665 with commentary by three featured experts.

Full Summary: Join us for a virtual exploration and conversation about the Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662-1665 with commentary by three featured experts

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Join us for a virtual exploration and conversation about the Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662-1665 with commentary by three featured experts:

  • Nick Wilding, Professor and Associate Chair of History at Georgia State University
  • Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library
  • Jim Sowell, Astronomer and Observatory Director at Georgia Tech School of Physics

Attendees will get a virtual look at several illustrations from this nine-volume set, which contains more than 3,000 pages and 600 hand-colored maps of the world. Participants will also learn about how these books were created and their contributions to astronomy, cartography, and 17th century European understanding of the globe.

Attendees in the Atlanta-area are invited to stop by the Georgia Tech Library and see the Atlas in person from noon to 1:30 p.m.

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Georgia Tech Library

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
event, rare book spotlight, Joan Blaeu, Grooten Atlas, archives
Status
  • Created By: Jason Wright
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jan 26, 2022 - 11:29am
  • Last Updated: Jan 28, 2022 - 8:58am