Chet Van Duzer
Shipwrecks, Treasures, and Maps at the End of the 17th Century: The manuscript atlases of William Hack.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
1 p.m. (EDT)
Join Chet Van Duzer in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection as they look at the kinds of equipment available for recovering materials
from shipwrecks in the late 17th century and discuss the manuscript atlases made by the English cartographer William Hack.
William Hack's beautiful maps, copied from a "derrotero" (sailing directions with maps) captured from a Spanish ship in 1680, show the locations of several shipwrecks,
unusual in 17th-century maps. His later atlases also include indications of the amount of treasure on those ships. Van Duzer argues that this change was inspired by William Phips' spectacular recovery of treasure from a Spanish wreck in 1687. Phips' recovery
increased appreciation of shipwrecks as a potential economic resource and the addition of information about sunken treasure to his atlases created an extra source of value in his works, as guides for the discovery of treasure.
About the presenter
Chet Van Duzer is a board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, which brings multispectral imaging to cultural institutions around the world.
He has published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps; his recent books include "Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence," published by Springer in 2019, and "Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina
of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends," published by Springer in 2020. His book, "Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps," will be published in Open Access by Brill in July of this year. His current projects include a book about
self-portraits by cartographers and another about land animals on early modern maps.
The program will be followed by an audience question and answer session.
This Special Collections event is free and open to the public and will be hosted using Zoom software. All events in this series will be recorded for on-demand access
following the broadcasts
UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS ON CARTOGRAPHY
All presentations will begin at 1 p.m. (EDT) on Zoom
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• May 11: "What Makes a Map Persuasive? Or Not?" with PJ Mode
• May 25: "It Came from a Blue Sky: Mapping the Origins and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and other Zoonotic Diseases" with John Hessler
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Arthur Dunkelman
Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection
Kislak Center
Otto G. Richter Library
University of Miami
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Coral Gables, Florida 33146