Doctoral Theses in Progress

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Notes

1. This abstract is based on my doctoral thesis ‘Het gebruik van prekadastrale kaartboeken van Nederlands grondgebied’ (The Use of Estate Atlases of Dutch Territory), undertaken under the joint supervision of Professor Dr Günter Schilder and Dr Johannes Renes at the University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, for submission in 2007.

2. Roger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent, The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992).

3. The Hague, Nationaal Archief, Archieven Delftse Statenkloosters, inv. nr. 26.

4. Arnhem, Gelders Archief, Rekenkamer Gelderland, inv. nr. 7200a.

5. Conventions are analysed following Jacques Bertin's Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes (Paris, Mouton, 1967).

6. Kain and Baigent, The Cadastral Map (see note 2), 9.

7. Utrecht, Ridderlijk Duitse Orde, inv. nr. 898.

1. This abstract is a summary of my doctoral thesis entitled ‘Cartografie en cartografen in de Lage Landen’ (Cartography and Cartographers in the Low Countries) carried out under the supervision of Professor H. Symoens, University of Ghent, with the expected submission date July 2007. My thesis forms part of the project ‘Re‐evaluation of the sciences in the Low Countries during the long sixteenth century’, which is funded by the Government of Flanders. The sources on which the thesis is based are preserved in the archive of the Plantin‐Moretus Museum in Antwerp, particularly the Journalen van 1566–1650 (diaries), ledgers and the maparchieven (map archive). The survival of the archive, as well as the activities of the printing house, provides a unique and rich source for researchers.

2. Dirk Imhof, De wereld in kaart: Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) en de eerste atlas [The world in maps, Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas] (Antwerp, Plantin‐Moretus Museum, 1998), 152.

3. Patrick O'Brien, Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001), 361.

4. These can be found in the Journalen (Antwerp, Plantin‐Moretus Museum, Archive no. 37).

5. M. van Durme, Correspondance Mercatorienne (Antwerp, de Nederlandse boekhandel, 1959), 94. Letter dated 15 February 1569.

6. William Eisler, The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook (Hong Kong, Cambridge University Press, 1995).