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Authors' Postscripts

B. ARUNACHALAM is Professor of Geography (retired), University of Mumbai, India.

JOHN DUNBABIN is Reader, fellow & tutor in politics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

PRASAD P. GOGATE is Cartographer, Department of Geography, University of Mumbai, India.

ROGER J. P. KAIN is Montefiore Professor of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.

GIORGIO MANGANI is Director of the Cartoteca Storica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.

LUCIANA DE LIMA MARTINS, a qualified architect, is completing her Ph.D thesis, Department of Geography, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

BARBARA E. MUNDY is Assistant Professor of Art History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA.

RICHARD OLIVER is Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.

MARY PEDLEY is Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, USA.

KIRSTEN A. SEAVER is an independent historian of early North Atlantic exploration, Palo Alto, California, USA.

SUSAN SCHULTEN, is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Denver, USA.

MARCEL WATELET is attaché scientifique au Ministère wallon de l'Equipement et des Transports, Nil-Saint-Vincent, Belgium.