The History of Cartography, Volume 4 : Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Mary Sponberg Pedley

ISBN 10: 0226184757 / ISBN 13: 9780226184753

Edité par The University Of Chicago Press Nov 2019, 2019

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Neuware - 'Between 1650 and 1800, the social and intellectual changes that were sweeping Europe also transformed its mapmaking practices. Throughout the nations on the continent as well as their overseas territories, a new emphasis on geometrical principles gave rise to improved tools for measurement and mapping of the world, even as the rising power of the state enabled large-scale mapping and surveying projects. As illustrated in this comprehensive history, however, cartography encompasses a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types, and the developments of the Enlightenment era affected these processes in different ways, depending on the type of map and the context of its production. The volume's 489 encyclopedia-style articles, contributed by an international cast of 207 scholars and experts, range from short biographical sketches of key individuals to multipart entries on such broad topics as 'Geodetic Surveying,' 'Thematic Mapping,' and 'Map Collecting.' Each entry includes bibliographical references, and the volume is illustrated with 954 images, all printed in full color'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The History of Cartography, Volume 4 : Cartography in the European Enlightenment
• Éditeur: The University Of Chicago Press Nov 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226184757
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226184753
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 280 L x 234 H x 115 P (en millimètres) 280 millimètres de largeur par 234 millimètres de hauteur par 115 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 7189 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

Matthew H. Edney is Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Cartography: The Ideal and Its History and Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Mary Sponberg Pedley?is assistant curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England, also published by Chicago, and Bel et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers.