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Subject:        exhibition at Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Date:   Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:21:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:   AliceH <[log in to unmask]>
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_Lost at Sea, the Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750._
"Explore the skills, stories and symbols that early modern mariners used
to navigate the high seas."
June 10-September 4, 2010; Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed
Sundays and federal holidays.
Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 E. Capitol Street SE


Map aficionados, particularly for English mapping and geograhical
perspectives,  must not miss this exhibition in the Great Hall at the
Folger Shakespeare Library. Featured cartographic treasures include: W.
J. Blaeu's octavo  _Light of navigation_, 1622, with its illustration of
the master of navigation and his students surrounded by tools of the
trade, illustrating the crowded social setting this training involved. A
quarter quadrant with nocturnal, ca. 1650, made of boxwood and brass,
used to determine time before and after midnight. W.J. Blaeu's colorful
map, _America Nova Tabula_, rev. 1642, and his ca. 8" globes,
terrestrial and celestial, 1602. A "please touch" segment involves the
leather, gold stamped binding for a Knapton _Atlas Commercialis_ of
1728.  A John Senex 1712 map of the world, small, included in a text
which I forgot to note... A facsimile title page from _The Mariner's
Mirror_, Anthony Ashley's translation, featuring astrolabes, lead lines,
quadrants, etc.  A 17th century Valencia Astrolabe facsimile.  _Purchas
his Pilgrimes_, 1625, open to the Elstracke/Briggs map of North
America.  Martin Cortes' _The Arte of Navigation_, London, 1596,
translated by Richard Eden.  And there is more, much more. Enjoy.

As you can tell by this impressive list, this is an exhibition not to be
missed if you are in Washington, DC, this summer and early fall.

There is no catalog, but there is a website:

http://www.folger.edu/Content/Whats-On/Folger-Exhibitions/On-Exhibit-Lost-at-Sea/


Alice

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