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Inspired by the sea
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Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
Exhibition>> Marine world • the US
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A mariner’s astrolabeThe sea evokes awe in most of us. It inspires some to poetry and literature.
This artistic imagination is showcased in an exhibition at Washington’s Folger Shakespeare Library.
Its subtitle, The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550- 1750, might suggest a lulling drone of academic solemnity, but its main title, Lost at Sea, evokes something tempestuous.
The show draws on rare books and unusual seafaring apparatus.
.jpg "Image of The Mariners Mirrour, from around 1588 (Source: Folger Shakespeare Library)")
Image of The Mariners Mirrour, from around 1588 (Source: Folger Shakespeare Library)The exhibition cura tor, Steve Mentz, a lecturer, has keen interest in the history of marine world.
A 1559 book by William Cunningham, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth called The Cosmographical Glasse, Conteinyng the Pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation, is on display in the exhibition.
The book describes itself as “a mirror, in which entire cosmos can be discerned”.
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