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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:33:56 +0100
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: 'E.G.R. Taylor and the Vinland Map'
Sender: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>





> 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)
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