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Praeclara Ferdina[n]di.
Hernán Cortés
1524
Breves in sphaeram meditatiunculae
Bartholomaeus Mercator
1563
De geometriae principiis ad sphaerae astronomicae noticiam neces sariis. caput primum…
Glareanus
1513
La istoria de las Indias. y Conquista de Mexico
López de Gómara
1552
Orbis Typus Vniversalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem
1513
Battista Agnese atlas
Battista Agnese
1543-1545
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
Thomas Harriot
1590
Astronomicum cæsareum
Peter Apian
1540
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Early Mexican Imprints at the JCB
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Jan van Linschoten, “Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae …” in Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert…, Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1596
November 22, 2021
Fellow's Talk
"Brute animals" and "rational creatures": Defining humanity in the Indigenous-language vocabularies and pedagogies of New Spain
Wednesday, July 28 at 1:00pm
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Earthquakes and Timekeeping Practices in New England, 1600-1800
Wednesday, August 25 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
Translating Late Medieval Classics into Nahuatl: The Imitatio Christi and How to Think About Latin-Nahuatl translation
Wednesday, September 1 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
Comparative Colonialisms? Palermo and the Americas at the JCB
Wednesday, August 4 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
From South to North America: A New Perspective on Floridian Studies
Wednesday, July 7 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
The Strait of Magellan and the Construction of a Global habitability. Geopolitics and cosmography in the 16th century [in Spanish]
Wednesday, June 30 at 1:00pm
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