{{Short description|American historian of cartography}}
'''Chet Van Duzer''' (born 1966) is an American historian of [[cartography]].
== Life ==
He was born in 1966, and grew up in Northern California.
He graduated from [[UC Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2014/09/how-i-write-history.html|title=How I Write History…with Chet Van Duzer|date=14 September 2014|publisher=|accessdate=1 June 2018}}</ref>
He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the [[University of Rochester]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facsimilefinder.com/articles/author/chetvanduzer/|title=Chet Van Duzer, Author at Facsimile Finder Blog -|website=Facsimile Finder Blog|accessdate=1 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/people/|title=People – The Lazarus Project|website=www.lazarusprojectimaging.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref>
== Career ==
From 2011 to 2012, he was a scholar-in-residence at the [[John W. Kluge Center]] at the [[Library of Congress]].<ref name="loc.gov">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/scholars/vanduzer.html|title=Chet Van Duzer, Kluge Fellow (Resident Scholars, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress)|website=www.loc.gov|accessdate=1 June 2018}}</ref>
He has also received a Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.<ref name="loc.gov"/>
== Bibliography ==
His notable books include:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n95030962/ |title=Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / |publisher=Worldcat.org |date= |accessdate=2018-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/824869.Chet_Van_Duzer|title=Chet Van Duzer|website=www.goodreads.com|accessdate=1 June 2018}}</ref>
* ''Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps'' {{ISBN|9780712357715}} * ''The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550'' {{ISBN|9780712356183}} * ''Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript'' {{ISBN|9789004304536}} * ''Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515 : Transcription and Study'' {{ISBN|9781606180051}} * ''Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography, With an Edition and Translation of G. C. Munz’s ‘Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus’ (1711)'' {{ISBN|9780975542408}} * ''Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 & 1516 World Maps'' {{ISBN|9781929154470}} * ''Christopher Columbus: Book of Privileges: 1502 The Claiming of a New World'' {{ISBN|9781929154531}} ==References== {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://rochester.academia.edu/ChetVanDuzer Academia page]
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