The History of Cartography Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment
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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.
ISBN
9780226339221
Publication Date
4-2020
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
Keywords
Geography, Cartography, History, Exploration, European History, History of Technology
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | European History | History
Recommended Citation
Edney, Matthew H. PhD and Sponberg Pedley, Mary PhD, "The History of Cartography Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment" (2020). Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books. 300.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/300
