forwarded from MapHist
How co-incidental (both theme and date) that the BIMCC [Brussels
International Map Collectors’ Circle] has its 2010 Conference on an
associated theme of ‘Cartography about China and Exhibition of all the
Martino Martini maps’ in the Royal Library, Brussels/Brussel/Bruxelles)
on Saturday 11 December (see: www.bimcc.org) -



BIMCC Annual Conference and Exhibition on China

december 11, 2010



Conference Programme



09.00h             Arrival



09.15-09.30     Welcome by Eric Leenders, President

09.30-10.15     H. De Weerdt – University of Oxford

                         - The production and reproduction of Chinese
Empire Maps (ca 200BC-1300AD)

10.15-10.35     H. Kok – Chairman of Imcos

                         - Intricacies of the sea-route from the
Netherlands to the Far East, 17th Century

10.40-11.00     Coffeebreak

11.00-11.45        N. Pearce – University of Glasgow

- Matteo Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest’s Maps of the World



12.00-14.00     Lunch at the Novotel



14.00-14.30     H. Kok

                         - Mapping the adjoining seas of China initially
fraught with errors

14.35-15.35        S. De Peuter

- Martino Martini’s Jesuit cartography of China’s Middle Kingdom

                         - Comments on the Exhibition

16.00-16.30     E. Leenders

- Discussion – Conclusion



Francis Herbert (Founder Member, BIMCC: thus biasedJ)