Historical Cartography in Brazil
Programme (subject to modification):
09:30 – 10:00
welcome of participants with coffee
10:00
Dra. Iris Kantor, Departamento de História,Universidade de SãoPaulo-Brasil
The first maps made after the arrival of the Europeans in the NewWorld.
11:30 – 12:30
Martijn Storms, MA, Universiteistbibliotheek Leiden
The Marcgraf/Blaeu map of Dutch Brazil
12.30 – 14:30
Aperitif and lunch
14:30
Prof. Dr. Raymond Buve, Universiteit Leiden
A journey through Dutch Brazil from the attack by Piet Heijn onSalvador in 1624 to the siege of Mauritsstad by the Portuguese
15:00
Coffeebreak
15:30 – 16:15
Dr. Ben Teensma, Universiteit Leiden
Progressive general knowledge about Brazil, 1600- 1650 ascumulated in the surviving Dutch WIC-rutters from 1629, 1637 andcirca 1648
16:30
End of the conference
