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January 10, 2020, Filed Under: Conservation, Digital Collections, Featured1

How a famed astronomer paved the way for the Blaeu World Map

Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. A Q & A with Dr. Bruce Hunt about the Blaeu World Map In recent blog posts, we examined the science behind the Blaeu World Map and took a deep dive into the conservation in progress to prepare… read more 

December 11, 2019, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The science behind the Blaeu World Map

Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. A one-of-a-kind 17th-century map housed at the Ransom Center for decades, currently too fragile to display, is now the subject of an intensive research and conservation project that will utilize scientific analysis to reveal the hidden story behind… read more 

April 30, 2013, Filed Under: Photography

The Great Wall Map Revealed

Until recently, one of the largest objects in the Ransom Center collections has also been one of the least visible. This past fall, Ransom Center photographer Pete Smith took up photographing Joan Blaeu’s great wall map (GWM) as a personal challenge.

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