{"id":1785665,"date":"2018-05-28T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785665"},"modified":"2018-05-28T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T12:45:19","slug":"an-interview-with-joaquim-alves-gaspar-nautical-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/an-interview-with-joaquim-alves-gaspar-nautical-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Nautical Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Research Council has an interview<\/a> with the first recipient of the ERC Starting Grant to work in the field of history of cartography: Dr. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, a former Portuguese naval officer who is exploring the origins of the first European nautical charts.\u00a0[Osher<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Research Council has an interview with the first recipient of the ERC Starting Grant to work in the field of history of cartography: Dr. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, a former Portuguese naval officer who… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,292],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-1785665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-nautical","tag-history-of-cartography","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4959,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/09\/stuart-arnetts-artistic-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785665,"position":0},"title":"Stuart Arnett’s Artistic Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 September 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Ottawa-based artist Stuart Arnett creates works of art by drawing and painting directly on topo maps and nautical charts\u2014\u201ca mixed medium art form that I have named 'Artistic Cartography,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cThis combines a geographical map with graphite, Staedtler Marker and paint. 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