Author: Didier Robert de VaugondyPublisher: A. Boudet
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Category : Cartography
Languages : fr
Pages : 450
Book Description
Essai sur l'histoire de la géographie, ou sur son origine, ses progrès & son état actuel
Author: Didier Robert de VaugondyPublisher: A. Boudet
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : fr
Pages : 450
Book Description
Essai sur l'Histoire de la Géographie, ou sur son origine, ses progrès et son état actuel
Author: Didier Robert de Vaugondy (fils.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essai sur l'histoire de la géographie, ou sur son origine, ses progrès & son état actuel. Par M. Robert de Vaugondy, fils....
Author: Didier Robert de VaugondyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 422
Book Description
Geography Unbound
Author: Anne GodlewskaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226300471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
At the end of the eighteenth century, French geographers faced a crisis. Though they had previously been ranked among the most highly regarded scientists in Europe, they suddenly found themselves directionless and disrespected because they were unable to adapt their descriptive focus easily to the new emphasis on theory and explanation sweeping through other disciplines. Anne Godlewska examines this crisis, the often conservative reactions of geographers to it, and the work of researchers at the margins of the field who helped chart its future course. She tells her story partly through the lives and careers of individuals, from the deposed cabinet geographer Cassini IV to Volney, von Humboldt, and Letronne (innovators in human, physical, and historical geography), and partly through the institutions with which they were associated such as the Encyclopédie and the Jesuit and military colleges. Geography Unbound presents an insightful portrait of a crucial period in the development of modern geography, whose unstable disciplinary status is still very much an issue today.
The History of Cartography, Volume 4
Author: Matthew H. EdneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633922X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1803
Book Description
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
The Geographic Imagination of Modernity
Author: Chenxi TangPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804758395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: David Bailie WardenPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Being a Choice Collection of Books Relating to North and South America and the West-Indies
Author: David Baillie WardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Essai sur l'histoire de la géographie, ou sur son origine, ses progrès & son étal actuel
Author: Gilles Robert de VaugondyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 422
Book Description
Author: Harvard University