[Sci-tech-public] Sahin Seminar: Dominic Fontana on November 16, 2011

[Margo Collett]

Sahin Seminar  

Dominic Fontana 
Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, England 


"The Digital Detective:  Using GIS Technology to Model the Sinking of Henry VIII's Warship The Mary Rose" 


 In 1545 King Henry watched as the Mary Rose, pride of his Navy, suddenly capsized and sank whilst engaging a French invasion fleet off Portsmouth, England.  This lecture brings together Tudor art, geography, history and archaeology to better understand a few desperate minutes of a naval action which occurred almost 500 years ago.  In 1966 Dr. Harold E. Edgerton of MIT, provided the first positive target evidence for a shipwreck at the location where Alexander McKee suspected the Mary Rose had been lost.  The Mary Rose herself was archaeologically excavated and recovered from the seabed in 1982 and is now being conserved in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.



Wednesday, November 16, 2011
7:00 pm 
Building 32 Room 155
 Stata Center


Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the SHASS Dean's Office.  
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