Wouter de Vries (1993) is set to defend his PhD Dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the interaction of imagination, visuality and knowledge in the early modern period. His current project is funded by NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen, as well as a Lisa Jardine Grant from The Royal Society of London. His previous projects include a study of the genre of coastal profiles between 1500-1800 and a study into the visual epistemologies of early modern colonial maps at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin).
For more information, please contact me at: wdevries93@gmail.com.
Imagining the Earth 