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Cartography in the European Renaissance
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ISBN: 0226316335 9780226316338 0226316351 9780226316352 0226316378 9780226316376 0226907287 9780226907284 0226907333 9780226907338 0226907341 9780226907345 9780226907321 0226907325 0226907325 9780226184760 9780226184777 9780226534695 9780226534701 9780226534718 9780226184753 9780226339221 0226184773 0226184765 0226184757 Year: 2007 Volume: 2 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) University of Chicago press

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Abstract

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.

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Geodesy. Cartography --- anno 500-1499 --- Prehistory --- Antiquity --- Cartography --- Cartographie --- Cartografie. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Cartography, Prehistoric --- 912 "04/14" --- 912 <09> <4> --- 912 <3> --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Prehistoric cartography --- History --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Middeleeuwen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Europa --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Plaatsaanduiding van de Oude Wereld --- 912 <09> <5> --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Azië --- 912 "15" --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 912 <09> <6> --- 912 <09> <7> --- 912 <09> <94> --- 912 <09> <98/99> --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Afrika --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Noord-Amerika. Midden-Amerika --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Australië --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Poolgebieden --- Africa --- Pacific Islands --- America --- Australia --- Arctica --- South Asia --- Asia --- Cartography - Europe - History --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 912 <09> --- 912 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen --- Cartography - Islamic countries - History. --- Cartography - South Asia - History. --- Cartography - History. --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799

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