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SUMMARY:Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative in
 strument - Paola Bertucci (Yale University)
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CONTACT:Ahmad Elabbar
DESCRIPTION:This lecture traces the afterlife of a man who never lived: Fl
 avio Gioia\, the supposed inventor of the mariner's compass. Born from a s
 ixteenth-century translation error\, Gioia lived for centuries on the prin
 ted page as a mythical figure representing European ingenuity. His fabrica
 ted existence reveals how print culture produced what might be called _pre
 digital hallucinations_ – errors that circulated so widely as to harden 
 into truth. By following Gioia's existence through encyclopedias\, treatis
 es\, and national rivalries from the sixteenth century into the early twen
 tieth\, the lecture examines how origin stories about navigation turned in
 vention narratives into moral geographies of civilization.
LOCATION:Hopkinson Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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