Larry E. Tise is a historian and author who has held senior posts with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, among others. From 2000 to 2015, he served as the Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University, thereafter continuing as adjunct Research Professor. His research centres on early modern exploration, particularly Thomas Harriot and Sir Walter Raleigh, and on the origins of flight. From 2004 to 2025, he examined hand-colored De Bry editions in major American and European research libraries. Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He specializes in European representations of the early modern world. His work at the intersection of textual and visual sources has resulted in three books: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590–1634), published in 2008, Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017) and An Ocean of Rumours: News and Information in the Atlantic World (2026).

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Larry E. Tise is a historian and author who has held senior posts with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, among others. From 2000 to 2015, he served as the Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University, thereafter continuing as adjunct Research Professor. His research centres on early modern exploration, particularly Thomas Harriot and Sir Walter Raleigh, and on the origins of flight. From 2004 to 2025, he examined hand-colored De Bry editions in major American and European research libraries. Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He specializes in European representations of the early modern world. His work at the intersection of textual and visual sources has resulted in three books: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590–1634), published in 2008, Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017) and An Ocean of Rumours: News and Information in the Atlantic World (2026).

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Larry E. Tise is a historian and author who has held senior posts with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, among others. From 2000 to 2015, he served as the Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University, thereafter continuing as adjunct Research Professor. His research centres on early modern exploration, particularly Thomas Harriot and Sir Walter Raleigh, and on the origins of flight. From 2004 to 2025, he examined hand-colored De Bry editions in major American and European research libraries. Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He specializes in European representations of the early modern world. His work at the intersection of textual and visual sources has resulted in three books: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590–1634), published in 2008, Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017) and An Ocean of Rumours: News and Information in the Atlantic World (2026).

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