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From: Fahri Dikkaya <dikkayafahri@yahoo.com.tr>
List Editor: Mark Stein <stein@MUHLENBERG.EDU>
Editor's Subject: H-TURK: Masters of Maps: Piri Reis and Mercator [F Dikkaya]
Author's Subject: H-TURK: Masters of Maps: Piri Reis and Mercator [F Dikkaya]
Date Written: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:59:15 -0400
Date Posted: Sat, 12 Oct 2012 08:59:15 -0400

You are invited to attend the opening of Belgo-Turkish exhibition of
Masters of Maps: Piri Reis and Mercator, which will be held in Mithat
Çoruh Amphi at 3 pm in 18th October. The exhibition has been staged
in the context of a visit by HRC Prince Philippe and HRC Princess
Mathilde will preside.



MASTERS OF MAPS : PIRI REIS AND MERCATOR
This symposium and exhibition
on the giants of 16th-century cartography coincides with the Belgian
economic
mission under the auspices of HRH Prince Philippe  that will visit
Turkey from 15 to 20 October
2012.  The symposium wants to celebrate
the 500th birthday of the cartographer Gerard Mercator, who was born
in
Rupelmonde,  Belgium. This academic forum
also wishes to be an introduction to the Unesco Piri Reis year (2013)
and its
activities which will start in a few months.



Thurday, 18
October : Opening Ceremony in the presence of HRH princess Mathilde of
Belgium

15.00:



15.15: Speech by HE Kris Peeters, Minister President of Flanders

            Opening and tour of the exhibition by HRH Princess Mathilde
of Belgium

            Cocktail



Friday, 19
October:

   9:00Coffee

   9:40  Welcoming Speech  by Prof.Dr.
Dilek Önkal

   9.45:Introduction to the symposium by Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık

10.00: Film “Sailing around Mercator’s globe”, produced by the Mercator
museum of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

session Mercator

Dr Thomas Horst
"Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) and his monumental works"

Prof. Dr. Philippe De Maeyer:
“Mercator and his influence to the present: from
globes to GIS”


Dr. Jan Parmentier
“Navigation in the Low Countries during the 16th and
17th centuries.”

 12.30:lunch

13:30 :Coffee

 14.00:session Piri Reis

Dr. Dimitris Loupis
“Piri Reis and Ottoman nautical
charting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”

Doç.Dr. Bülent Arı
“ Piri Reis’ major work : The
Kitab-ı Bahriye “

Doç. Dr. İbrahim Yılmaz
“Cartographic and Geodetic Data in the Unique
Works of Piri Reis”

16:30:Coffee



Venue : Bilkent University Campus
              Mithat Çoruh Amphi and exposition
space

Fahri Dikkaya
dikkaya@bilkent.edu.tr

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