Jan Trachet

🌍🔎 Doe mee aan Mapathon 1571! Help een unieke 16de-eeuwse kaart van het Brugse Vrije digitaal verbinden met het huidige landschap. 📅 14 & 15 maart 2025 📍 Stadsarchief Brugge ➡️ Info & Inschrijven: mappingpourbus.ugent.be 🦋Volg verder op #BlueSky @jtrachet.bsky.social

What's happening? After 10 years on Twitter, I'm making the move to #BlueSky ! Follow me there @jtrachet.bsky.social #ByeTwitter #HelloBlueSky

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📢Discover the #keynote speakers for #ICAP2025 ⏩ and submit your abstract quickly!

📸Live from @StadBrugge City Archive: Together with @vioe, @MuseaBrugge & @artinflanders we are making a new HR photographs of Pieter Claeissens' painted copy-#map of the Liberty of #Bruges (1601). 🗺️3000km² of late #medieval #landscape soon at your disposal, in full detail!

🔍 At a broader level, this paper highlights the delicate balance between human activity, livestock, and coastal environments. It contributes to the understanding of how such #taskscapes were integrated into regional land use and shaped the historical landscape we observe today.

🗺️For Map Historians, this case-study validated the topographical accuracy of Pieter Pourbus’ painted map. Not only is it designed with advanced methods (doi.org/10.1080/000870…), also its topographic content is a treasure throve of undiscovered archaeological sites. (7/8)

📢For those interested in #RuralHistory, #EnvironmentalHistory, #LandscapeArchaeology, #ArchaeologicalSurvey & #MapHistory, our new paper “Marginal Mounds and Maritime Shepherding” @JnlWetlandArch covers all those topics. 👉Check it out doi.org/10.1080/147329… 🧵below (1/8)

Finally, the #animation produced by #SeeYouBaby for the #exhibition 'Pieter Pourbus - Master of Maps' @MuseaBrugge (Dutch with French/English subs), in which Pourbus' survey method is explained for a broader audience, is now available on vimeo.com/1018238804 (7/7)

Read more in "Illuminating Sixteenth-century Measuring Methods and Map Design: New Findings from Pieter Pourbus’ Chorographic Maps" published #OpenAccess in the #Cartographic Journal: doi.org/10.1080/000870… This #postdoc research is funded by BOF @ugent & @FWOVlaanderen. (6/7)

Finally out: new research on Pieter #Pourbus, a mid-16th-century artist and mapmaker, who produced highly accurate maps of the coastal area around Bruges (Belgium). How did he achieve such a precision? Find out in this 🧵or in the 📰👇 #MapHistory #cartography (1/7)