From Columbus to Captain Cook

From: Sea Classics | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Newport Art Museum's exhibit, "The Boundless Deep - The European Conquest of the Oceans, 1450 to 1840," opened on April 27. It features classic texts and cartographic works from the era of Columbus to the time a century after Captain Cook.

In a city that has a maritime history dating back to the mid-17th century, the objects to be displayed are entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence. The Library, located on the campus of Brown University, is an independently funded and administered institution and was founded in 1901. It is one of the world's foremost ...

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