# Mapping the Elusive Southern Sky

Dava Sobel discusses the early history of celestial cartography in the annual Jay I. Kislak Lecture in the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. Third of four sessions of a two-day conference celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina and focusing on some of the most mysterious maps of the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690314/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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