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Rare Book Spotlight: Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas

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Reynolds, Alison
 Sowell, James R.
 Wilding, Nick
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Join Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library; Jim Sowell, Astronomer and Observatory Director at Georgia Tech School of Physics; and Nick Wilding, Professor and Associate Chair of History at Georgia State University, for a virtual exploration and conversation about the Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas, which was published in Amsterdam between 1662-1665. They will provide a virtual look at several illustrations from this nine-volume set, which contains more than 3,000 pages and 600 hand-colored maps of the world.
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2022-02-24
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59:43 minutes
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