Alan H. Hartley | Duluth, Minnesota

• Corrections to my Lewis and Clark Lexicon of Discovery (2004, Washington State University Press).
• The Michael of Rhodes project is a collaborative effort, sponsored by the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT, to analyse, translate and publish Michael's commonplace book, which contains, among many other things, one of the oldest known treatises on shipbuilding. Michael was an immigrant to Venice who rose from the position of galley oarsman to galley commander and made many voyages to places as distant as London and the Black Sea in the period from 1401 to 1443. A marvelous conference of similarly international scope reintroducing Michael's manuscript to the world was hosted by the Dibner Institute in December 2005.
• Photos of sailing vessels in the frescos of the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, designed by Ignazio Danti, 1580.
• Material on my proposed Historical Dictionary of Mediterranean Nautical Terms.
• Astronomical terms (stars, constellations, the moon) in the northwestern Mediterranean c1300.
• Loan-words (mostly Italian and English) in modern nautical Greek.
• A sample of maritime-history reading slips I've submitted to the Oxford English Dictionary.
• Articles I've written for the OED News:
  • on my historical reading work for the OED (June 2005).
  • on the names of North American peoples and their languages (January 1999).
  • on English nautical vocabulary (July 1998)
• An article on nautical terms in everyday English written to accompany an interview in the Wordmaster feature of Voice of America News, 8 August 2002.
• From reading-slips to dictionary entry: early examples from my OED work on ethnonyms.
• The Inland Etymology of Camas: a byproduct of my ethnonym work, written for the October 2001 issue of the Newsletter of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. (This is a PDF file which may be opened automatically by your browser. If it isn't, download Adobe's Acrobat Reader.)
• Oxford University Press supports my lexicographic work.
• The University of Minnesota at Duluth makes this Web-site possible.

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Last modified 6 December 2005.