Chet A. Van Duzer

Background

Chet Van Duzer was born on March 10, 1966 in Stanford, California, United States, in the family of Victor E. and J. Noreen (Kelly) Van Duzer.

Education

In 1987 Chet received Bachelor of Arts at University of California in Berkeley, California, United States.

Career

Chet developed his career as a freelance writer. He has published extensively on historical geography and the history of cartography in journals such as Imago Mundi, Terrae Incognitae and Word & Image. He is also the author of "Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study", the first detailed analysis of one of the earliest surviving terrestrial globes that includes the New World. His book "Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" was published in 2012 by the British Library, and in 2013 the Library of Congress published a study of Christopher Columbus’s "Book of Privileges" which he co-authored with John Hessler and Daniel De Simone.

Achievements

• Chet is famous for his book "Duality and Structure in the Iliad and Odyssey", written in 1996.

Works

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  • Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps 2014
  • The World For a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550 2015
  • Canada Before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition (Series in World History) 2018
  • Johann Schoner s Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study: Transactions, APS (Vol. 100, Part 5) 2010
  • Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography 2004
  • Seeing the World Anew 2012
  • Christopher Columbus Book of Privileges: The Claiming of a New World 2014
  • Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-century Manuscript 2015
  • Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence (Historical Geography and Geosciences) 2018
  • Duality and Structure in the «Iliad» and «Odyssey» (Lang Classical Studies) 1996

Membership

• Phi Beta Kappa

Connections

Father:

Victor E. Van Duzer

Mother:

J. Noreen (Kelly) Van Duzer