Re: [MapHist] Bar Scale Data ?

2009-08-25 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Very good, Francis, It is just whst I too suspected but, a great BUT, Kin Edwin wrote: This interval to the left of 0 is also

Re: [MapHist] Gdańsk · Danzig

2009-10-17 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
images (and that is not available for this group of maps even via the subscription version of WorldCat), you can at least see the locations of holding libraries, and work from there. Joel Kovarsky Vladimiro Valerio wrote: This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're

Re: [MapHist] Waldseemueller Map Mystery Resolved

2009-11-04 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Be care! We may reasonably infer almost everything from anything. A reasonable or likely story is quite different from an

Re: [MapHist] Giuseppe Longhi -- Viena D'Austria (ca 1683) (Printer in Bologna)

2009-11-19 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Barry, in spite of his rich tipographical and cartographical production, quite a few is knwon and written on Giuseppe Longhi

Re: [MapHist] Dr. Tomasz Niewodniczanski

2010-01-06 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + . . . very sad news to all the people who had the opportunity to met and know him. vladimiro Il giorno 06/gen/10, alle ore

Re: [MapHist] Question on engraving

2010-01-15 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Ovidiu, The best reply to your querries is in an ancient work entirely devote to how to produce a map from the land survey

Re: [MapHist] Question on engraving

2010-01-15 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
. In the same time, the fact that the decorations are missing and especially the fact that the person making the manuscript has colored it does not seem to indicate that it was used in the making of the map. Ovidiu On 15/01/10 10:49, Vladimiro Valerio wrote: This is a MapHist list message

Re: [MapHist] Skelton and the Commisao de Estudos de Coordenacao des Centros de Cartografia Antiga

2010-01-27 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Paul, Unfortunately I have not with me in Venice the volumes of History of Portuguese Cartography (Coimbra 1969-)by Armando

Re: [MapHist] Re: [EXLIBRIS-L] World's Largest Book

2010-01-27 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I am not sure that Klencke atlas goes on show for the first time. If I am not wrong the Klencke Atlas was displayed (or at least

[MapHist] Artemidorus' map

2010-04-05 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, is there anybody who knows why any historian of cartography has never studied the so called map of the so called

Re: [MapHist] Artemidorus' map

2010-04-05 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Tom, it is exactly what I meant! As several scholars, like you, believe that Romans constructed and used maps in modern terms

[MapHist] San'Anatolia Meeting

2010-05-17 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
Valerio (Università IUAV di Venezia) Neoclassicism and Rhetoric in Neapolitan frontispieces and cartouches between Ancien Regime and Restoration 21,30 Conference Hall Assembly Association “Roberto Almagià” Italian Collector of Ancient Cartography Additional information from Vladimiro

Re: [MapHist] Cassini Projection, Ordnance Survey (GB), and angels

2010-08-24 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Francis, your are unique! What a beautiful finding. vladimiro Il giorno 24/ago/2010, alle ore 21.38, Francis Herbert ha scritto:

Re: [MapHist] Manuscript map questions

2010-09-15 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Ovidiu, the question you pose is closely connected to the one you posted on 15th January of this year. I sent to the list the

Re: [MapHist] Article wanted (Gregson 1962)

2010-09-26 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Robles Macias, I don't know where you may find that article but, from your query and knowing your interest, I can infer that

Re: [MapHist] Article wanted (Gregson 1962)

2010-09-26 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, Following my previous mail, I like just to point out (for the sake of precision and completeness) that among the

Re: [MapHist] Article wanted (Gregson 1962)

2010-09-28 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Susan, Autocad is (also) a sort of ruler, pencil and compass (a drawing set, in sum) drive by a computer. If you like to draw a

[MapHist] acquisition of files from mapsandimages

2010-10-01 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, I learn from the Societies who run the website Mapsandimages (http://www.mapsandimages.it/) that since a few weeks is

[MapHist] Alai

2010-10-10 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, I would like to come in touch with Cyrus Alai (General Maps of Persia). Is there anybody who may give me an email

Re: [MapHist] Query: Arno Peters controversy

2010-10-22 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, I took some while before replying to the message of Stefan, as it is important to get quiet and count up to ten thousand

Re: [MapHist] Query: Arno Peters controversy

2010-10-23 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Thanks to Kit for the call to reply at the bibliographical help which moved Stefan to write to us. May be I had to count up one

Re: [MapHist] Help with Ptolemaios Handbuch der Geographie

2010-10-23 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I have the book. Send me privately your list of places. vladimiro Il giorno 23/ott/2010, alle ore 21.55, Sorin Fortiu ha scritto:

[MapHist] Sicily

2010-12-22 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Maphisters, I need your help in identifying the provenance of a small woodcut map (8x12 cm) of Sicily from a German book of

Re: [MapHist] fractal theory of Brownian motion

2010-12-22 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
in Applied Mathematics at NIST and will giving the same lecture on February 11th using updates in his database and a better Brownian modelyou should go... Carlo Petuchia Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics Courant Institute, NYU On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Vladimiro

Re: [MapHist] Help with Coronelli’s map Corso Del Danubio ...

2011-01-06 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + H=Hungarian, it might be. I dont' know whether the Italian Coronelli used the form Hungaria (Hungeria) with the H. In Italian,

Re: [MapHist] Barbari's Venice

2011-01-30 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + See the message by Tony Campbell on December 24th, 2010 on the same subject: For an interesting account, in the [Minneapolis]

Re: [MapHist] RE: Question pre-1466 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography on the Internet

2011-02-22 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The following information might be useful for everybody interested in Italian humanistic studies: a great deal of the holdings of

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricorn

2011-04-24 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The five great circle in the skies were clearly described by Ptolemy in his Almagest, around the middle of the 1st century of our

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn

2011-04-24 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + . . . . better six if we also consider the important Solstitial colure. vladimiro Il giorno 24/apr/2011, alle ore 18.03,

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn

2011-04-24 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + . . . even if Tropics, of course, are not great circle on the sphere (circle with the same diameter of the sphere). vladimiro Il

Re: [MapHist] The Four Surveyors

2011-04-29 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The rest is silence (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2) vladimiro Il giorno 29/apr/2011, alle ore 14.33, giulio pizzati

Re: [MapHist] Humboldt Map of False Positions

2011-04-30 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + David (and Ed), the same did Bourguignon D'Anville with his famous Carte de l'Italie published in Paris in 1743, in two sheets.

Re: [MapHist] Humboldt Map of False Positions

2011-05-01 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
de l'Analyse Géographique de ce continent par le S. d'Anville is on Gallica at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6500066n.r=italie.langFR vladimiro WW Vladimiro Valerio Professore Ordinario di Geometria Proiettiva e Descrittiva Office: Dipartimento di Storia

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn

2011-05-07 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Giulio, we have to use understandable words: what does the map of Tropic of Capricorn mean? In which sense you use the word map?

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn

2011-05-07 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
is true. (See Date a Cesare) More questions? Giulio --- Sab 7/5/11, Vladimiro Valerio vladi...@iuav.it ha scritto: Da: Vladimiro Valerio vladi...@iuav.it Oggetto: Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn A: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Data: Sabato 7

Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn

2011-05-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
and 146 of The Four Surveyors here attached. Giulio. --- Sab 7/5/11, Vladimiro Valerio vladi...@iuav.it ha scritto: Da: Vladimiro Valerio vladi...@iuav.it Oggetto: Re: [MapHist] Tropic of Cancer and of Capricocrn A: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Data: Sabato 7 maggio

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-05-27 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Bob, awfully interesting! But you need to contact a keen latin paleographer as the writings seem older than the supposed 1500 and

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-07 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The problems arising from the translation (and understanding) of the sole title of the Cosmographiae Introductio stress the need

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-07 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
philologist does exist! vladimiro Il giorno 07/giu/2011, alle ore 22.58, Tom Ikins ha scritto: This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Vladimiro Valerio vladi

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Dennis Nilsen dennis.nilsen@gmail.com wrote: Dear Vladimiro, I am curious how my translation is definitely false and wrong. Thanks. Sincerely, Dennis On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Vladimiro Valerio vladi...@iuav.it wrote: This is a MapHist list message (when you hit

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Once for ever, the reason for I call for a MODERN CRITIC EDITION of the Cosmographiae Introductio has its reason in avoiding that

Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Sorry, it escaped me before ending and controlling it. Once for ever, the reason for I call for a MODERN CRITIC EDITION of the

[MapHist] Catalog L'Italia prima dell'talia

2011-06-15 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, I forget to inform whosoever might be interested in it, where to purchase the catalog of the exhibition L'Italia prima

Re: [MapHist] Library of Congress gets unique flat earth map

2011-06-20 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Why to speak about XIX century fantasy? Why to refer to Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884)? We are still in company with flat

Re: [MapHist] New York Map Society is moving

2011-07-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + It would be nice to learn from somebody of the staff of the NYPL which kind of Policy they have that doesn't permit to a Map

Re: [MapHist] interoceanic canal of Nicaragua and Costa Rica - map date help needed

2011-07-18 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
message on the matter i a so little while. Il giorno 18/lug/2011, alle ore 16.39, Vladimiro Valerio ha scritto: This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Following my

Re: [MapHist] Historical latitude shift

2011-08-04 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Tom, interesting and intriguing questions. As far as it is in my knowledge, astronomers at the Aragonese court in Naples

Re: [MapHist] copyright of email messages

2011-08-07 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Joel, no doubt that we - all of us involved in scholarly publications and lectures - have the must to quote correctly any

Re: [MapHist] Acknowledging Copyright

2011-08-08 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Kit, the short phrase by Dickson will never stop plagiarists and dishonest people to use and abuse other's ideas and writings. It

Re: [MapHist] Looking for a map with a specific kind of reliability diagram

2011-09-16 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
before the ones you cite! Ciao vladimiro Il giorno 16/set/2011, alle ore 07.58, Vladimiro Valerio ha scritto: -- Forwarded message -- From: Dana A. Freiburger dafreibur...@wisc.edu Date: 2011/9/15 Subject: [MapHist] Looking for a map with a specific kind of reliability

Re: Brief Comment Concerning: [MapHist] Marco Polo New World Maps--Authentic

2011-09-25 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I agree with what has been stressed by Ben concerning the multiple way to interpret and investigate this documents. I am one of

Re: [MapHist] The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Daniel and all, just one short, brief, remark. Before Gaspard Monge published his fundamental treatise Géometrie Descriptive in

Re: [MapHist] FW: Kick off of the Philadelphia Map Society

2011-10-20 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
Fusari (Macerata), Emiiio Moreschi (Bergamo), Laura Tassi (Milano), Vladimiro Valerio (Napoli), Antonio Volpini (Corridonia, Macerata) and the Notaio Roberto Borri (Pavia), who could not sign being the Officer who registered the Act. Il giorno 20/ott/2011, alle ore 10.31, Tony Campbell ha scritto

Re: [MapHist] big [terrestrial] globe made of glass/crystal, or Portuguese scholarship...

2011-11-24 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Mr. (Mrs.?) as1510183, it is a matter of politeness to sign message and it is matter of competence to give sound reply to

Re: [MapHist] Use of sheet glass

2011-11-25 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I know that one of the reason for browning sheets of paper in maps and globes was the varnish used just to protect them. I suppose

Re: [MapHist] Use of sheet glass

2011-11-26 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear all, after a great deal of replies and hints and suggestions, I still wonder: what does mapamundo em vidro grande mean? From

Re: [MapHist] Facsimile Edition of Waldseemuller Maps

2011-12-06 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Great news! It is only hardly understandable the reason of reproducing the map at just slightly smaller than full size. So it would

Re: [MapHist] Prussian town location

2011-12-21 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + According to Google map, the distance from Bystrzec to Miniszek is 177 Km but the information supplied by Rich Boardman tell us a

Re: [MapHist] ISHM offer regarding MapHist

2012-01-04 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Zsolt, you have done the right thing. BRAVI! If Peter goes on changing

Re: [MapHist] List versus Forum

2012-01-04 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Sorin, of course we may be on touch in any moment we like, privately,