The Image of the globe in the Renaissance

Speaker(s): 
Peter Barber
Date: 
7 March 2011


Familiar to UK television audiences for his celebrated documentaries, the Head of Map Collections at the British Library is the author of Tales from the Map Room,  and  The Lie of the Land.  The record-breaking  “Magnificent Maps” was the latest of many exhibitions he organized at the Library.

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