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Subject:         Waldseemuller Symposium Podcast
Date:   Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:16:23 -0400
From:   John W. Hessler <[log in to unmask]>
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    If you were not one of the nearly 400 people who could attend last
month's Waldseemuller Symposium at the Library of Congress or if you did
and just wanted to watch it all again it is now available as a
web/podcast on the Library of Congress' website.

  All four sessions of 'Exploring Waldseemuller's World' are there for
free download and viewing.

Session 1: Scholars and Scientists
Session 2: Exploring the Known and the Unknown
Sessions 3: Sources and Texts
Session 4: Changes and Revolutions

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/results.php?cat=1

Hope you enjoy it...it is over ten hours long!!!!





John W. Hessler
Senior Cartographic Librarian
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
Washington DC
202-707-7223
http://www.warpinghistory.blogspot.com

With each step back in time, history becomes more
geographical, until, in the beginning, it is all geography.

                                                           ---Michelet