Entrée principale:

Konvitz, Josef W.

Titre et auteur:

Cartography in France, 1660-1848 : science, engineering, and statecraft / Josef W. Konvitz ; with a foreword by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Description:

xx, 194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Note on Terms -- 1. The National Map Survey -- 1660-1730 -- 1730-50 -- 1750-93 -- 2. Cartography and the State in the Revolutionary Era -- Cartography and International Borders before 1789 -- The Cadaster to 1799 -- The Cadaster after 1799 and the Centralization of Cartography -- 3. Maps of the Seas -- Theory and Practice -- Contour Lines to Buache -- Routine Hydrographic Mapping -- Du Carla, Dupain-Triel, and Contour Lines -- 4. Maps of Mountains -- Theory and Practice -- Mountain and Geological Maps in Science -- Mountain Maps in Military Engineering -- 5. Transportation Planning Maps -- Single-Project Maps -- Comprehensive National Maps -- 6. Thematic Cartography, circa 1790-1850 -- Early Thematic Maps, to 1820 -- Cartography and Engineering Education, 1747 to circa 1830 -- "Parler aux Yeux": Economic and Social Thematic Maps, 1820-50 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226450945
9780226450940

Sujet:

Cartography France History.
Cartographie France Histoire.
Cartography.
Cartografie.
France. [Literature] 1987.
France.
French cartography, 1660-1848

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room 20252
Cote: ID GA681 REF; ID:87-B7382
Statut: Disponible