# Chet van Duzer

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American historian of cartography

**Chet Van Duzer** (born 1966) is an American historian of [cartography](/source/Cartography).

## Life

He was born in 1966, and grew up in Northern California.

He graduated from [UC Berkeley](/source/UC_Berkeley).[1]

He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the [University of Rochester](/source/University_of_Rochester).[2][3]

## Career

From 2011 to 2012, he was a scholar-in-residence at the [John W. Kluge Center](/source/John_W._Kluge_Center) at the [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress).[4]

He has also received a Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.[4]

## Bibliography

His notable books include:[5][6]

- *Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780712357715](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780712357715)

- *The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780712356183](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780712356183)

- *Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789004304536](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789004304536)

- *Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515 : Transcription and Study* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781606180051](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781606180051)

- *Floating Islands: A Global Bibliography, With an Edition and Translation of G. C. Munz’s ‘Exercitatio academica de insulis natantibus’ (1711)* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780975542408](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780975542408)

- *Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 & 1516 World Maps* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781929154470](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781929154470)

- *Christopher Columbus: Book of Privileges: 1502 The Claiming of a New World* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781929154531](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781929154531)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["How I Write History…with Chet Van Duzer"](http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2014/09/how-i-write-history.html). 14 September 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Chet Van Duzer, Author at Facsimile Finder Blog -"](https://www.facsimilefinder.com/articles/author/chetvanduzer/). *Facsimile Finder Blog*. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["People – The Lazarus Project"](http://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/people/). *www.lazarusprojectimaging.com*. Retrieved 2018-06-06.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-loc.gov_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-loc.gov_4-1) ["Chet Van Duzer, Kluge Fellow (Resident Scholars, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress)"](https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/scholars/vanduzer.html). *www.loc.gov*. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript /"](http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n95030962/). Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Chet Van Duzer"](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/824869.Chet_Van_Duzer). *www.goodreads.com*. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

## External links

- [Academia page](https://rochester.academia.edu/ChetVanDuzer)

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