Lecture: The Portolan Chart - Washington, D.C.

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On Friday, May 21, the Philip Lee Phillips Society will be holding a conference on Re-Examining the Portolan Chart: History, Navigation and Science. The lectures will be held 9:30 am to 3:30 pm in Washinton D.C., at The Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium. Speakers will include Evelyn Edson, Allison Sandman, Richard Pflederer, John Hessler, and Fanella France. Lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register by email to specialevents@loc.gov. Additional information from John Hessler or Pam van Ee at 202-707-8534.

There will be an open house at the Geography and Map Division, Madison Building, Room B-01, on Saturday, May 22 from 9:30 am to noon.

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Boone and I attended the Phillip Lee Phillips Annual Conference and were not disappointed. The Phillip's Society is the support group for the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress and have begun annual conferences in May. Next year they will address maps of the Civil War and have field trips to the battlefields with original maps in hand!

The speakers were outstanding and the special treat was to have the priceless Portolan Charts laid out for us on Saturday to see up close in the library. For an review in the Washington Post, Library of Congress holds conference on origins of portolan charts

By Neely Tucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 22, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... tml?sub=AR