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Chart a course through time with guest lecturer Rear Admiral John Lippiett as he presents “Sailors Discover the Unknown World 500 Years Ago.” Spurred by improvements in seafaring technology, the findings of explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and Ferdinand Magellan transformed the world of cartography and inspired the search for shorter trade routes to the East. In this illuminating lecture, learn what a collection of early maps reveals about the European mariners who helmed imperial vessels across the high seas in search of fabled riches.