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A new Portolan chart available to study

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

A recently rediscovered Portolan Chart is now able to be studied by scholars. The Portolan Chart here mentioned was kept at the Archives Départementales de Vaucluse in Brussels since 2002, at the time discovered by a local amateur intrigued by the drawings and colors o...

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exhibitions

Exhibition Cartografías de lo desconocido | Mapas en la Biblioteca Nacional de España

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

The Spanish National Library in Madrid will showcase an exhibition on maps and charts from several periods, between  November 3rd and January 28th, 2018. 

For more information visit the official website.

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on the news

Nova Magazine interviews Joaquim Gaspar on the Medea-Chart Project

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

The full interview is available online.

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on the news

News on the Medea-Chart at the Portuguese Society of Mathematics

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The news can be read on the Society´s website.

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on the news

One ERC Starting Grant attributed to a scholar at the Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon University

Saturday, September 3, 2016

The full article is available online, in Portuguese.

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on the news

Faculdade de Ciências interviews Joaquim Gaspar on the Medea-Chart project awarded by ERC

Saturday, September 3, 2016

The full interview is available online.

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on the news

Joaquim Gaspar interviewed by Público on being awarded the ERC to study the Portolan Charts

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Full interview is available online.

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on the news

Henrique and Joaquim were looking at Mercator and found Pedro Nunes

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Radio Renascença interviewed Joaquim Alves Gaspar and Henrique Leitão, on the Mercator Map and their insights into Pedro Nunes contributions.

The full interview is available online.

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What´s happening

The MEDEA-CHART Database is online!

December 2, 2019

What is a Nautical Chart? Part II | The Treatises of Pedro Nunes about the nautical chart by Joaquim Gaspar

November 21, 2019

What is a Nautical Chart Really? The concepts of internal and external geometry applied to early modern nautical charts by Joaquim Gaspar

November 11, 2019

Call for Papers International Workshop on the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical, 4-5 June 2020

November 11, 2019

Call for a research fellowship is open

November 5, 2019

The Magellan planisphere, offered to the spanish King D. Carlos I, was possibly found

October 10, 2019

Double session, Joaquim Gaspar and Henrique Leitão seminars Friday Sept 20th, 14.30h, FCUL

September 13, 2019

Medea-Chart at the International Conference on the History of Cartography, Amsterdam, last July

August 13, 2019

Was the earth round in 1500? (available in Portuguese only)

August 6, 2019

"Was the Earth Round in 1500?" a talk by Joaquim Alves Gaspar

June 3, 2019

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