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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:46:18 -0500
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Subject: Vinland Map evening at the Explorers Club Dec. 4
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For map folk in the New York metro area, this dinner and program at the
Explorers Club, at 46 E 70th Street, Manhattan, might be of interest. See
below for details.
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
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http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
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Lindley Kirksey
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11/21/2002 08:04 Subject: Vinland Map evening at the Explorers Club Dec. 4
PM
Please send this to the Map Society list.
Should be interesting and a fun evening as well.
Lind
The Explorers Club Library Committee Invites You to a
SYMPOSIUM on the VINLAND MAP
Wednesday, December 4th, 2002
Since its emergence in the 1950's, this two-page map has been the center of
heated, often vitriolic scientific controversy. It shows Vinland ? an
island
in the northwest Atlantic Ocean "discovered by Bjarni and Leif in company".
Many scholars see this as the first cartographic representation of North
America. Its authenticity continues to be the subject of books, articles,
conferences, broadcast reports and web pages. Purchased by Paul Mellon for
Yale at a reported $300,000 in 1957, a New York Times story reported that
the map was valued at $ 25 million. There is agreement:" if it is
authentic,
it is one of the most important map discoveries of our time."
The Symposium Program includes
? A new documentary film in color, produced by The Acorn Foundation. It
traces the history of the Vinland map from its discovery to its current
home
in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and
discusses various scholarly points of view.
? A New Presentation by our own JAMES ROBERT ENTERLINE, FE '72
Jim Enterline is a highly regarded independent scholar, mathematician and
computer consultant well-known for his work in historical cartography. He
is
the author of the critically acclaimed "ERIKSON, ESKIMOS & COLUMBUS ?
Medieval European Knowledge of America" (Baltimore and London: 2002. Johns
Hopkins University Press)
? A Presentation by DR GARMAN HARBOTTLE Senior Chemist of the Brookhaven
National Laboratory, former director, Div. of Research and Laboratories,
International Atomic Energy Agency; Associate editor, Journal of
Radioanalytical Chemistry (1976-2001); etc
Dr. Harbottle was a member of the scientific team of the Smithsonian
Institution, the University of Arizona, and the Brookhaven National
Laboratory that reported in August 2002, after seven years of study
including radio-carbon-testing using the National Science Foundation-UA
Accelerator Mass Spectrometer, that "there is 95% certainty that the
parchment dates between 1411 and 1468", supporting the original studies of
the 1960s and those of many others.
? Open Discussion by informed Explorers and Invited Guests
COCKTAILS AND HORS D'OEVRES at 6:00 -- SEATED DINNER at 6:45
$ 50 each for members and one guest; $ 60 each for additional guests.
Seating is limited. Please send your Paid Reservations to Marisa Collazzo
as
soon as possible. No Tickets can be sold at the door.
Alfred Eisenpreis Ph. D., FR'97
Chairman of the Library Committee and moderator
Lindley Kirksey, F.R. '89
Dinner Chairman
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