Suggested topics

 

Papers could be devoted to, but are not limited to the following topics:

 

• history of nautical charts and the nautical cartography heritage,

• challenges and importance of different methodological approaches,

• the role and the importance of nautical charts,

• the origin of nautical charts,

• pre-geodetic and pre-hydrographic methods of spatial data acquisition,

• accuracy of nautical charts and their reliability as navigational aids,

• cartographic signs on nautical charts,

• imaginaries of the sea: aesthetics and symbolism on nautical charts,

• non-navigational elements on nautical charts (religious, political, etc.),

• nautical charts as communication media,

• toponymy: names and naming on nautical charts,

• seas and oceans in the history of cartography,

• sea atlases,

• complements to nautical charts: portolani, pilot books, isolarios, travelogues,

• navigational practices in the early modern period