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Over 125 persons attended the inaugural meeting of the Boston Map Society
on Tuesday, April 11, 1995 hosted by the Harvard Map Collection. The
first lecture was deleivered by Robert Karrow of the Newberry Library
whose talk on the cartographic renaissance of the sixteenth century
provided a stimulating history of early printed maps.
 
The attendees then adjourned for a reception and exhibit of materials
from the Map Collection. Entitled 'Ortelius and Friends: A Celebration of
Sixteenth Century Maps,' the exhibit includes, among other items,
Ortelius' Thatrum of 1570 and 1584; Mercator's Celestial Globe of 1551;
Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates; Phillip Apian's 1568 map of Bavaria; and
Richard Lyne's 1574 map of Cambridge, England. For those planning to
visit the Boston area, the exhibit will remain open through May 1.
 
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Harvard Map Collection                  FAX (617) 496-0440
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