The surveying turn in cartography: Revolutionizing maps and charts in the 18th and 19th centuries: 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography, 2022

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The surveying turn in cartography: Revolutionizing maps and charts in the 18th and 19th centuries : 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography, 2022

The Surveying Turn in Cartography: Revolutionizing Maps and Charts in the 18th and 19th Centuries (2022 : Berlin, Veranstaltung)

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The symposium’s main theme was the global “surveying turn” in cartography, hinting to the increasing professionalization and mechanization to gather base data for drawing ‘ever truer to nature’ maps, especially during, but not limited to, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Das Hauptthema des Symposiums war der globale „surveying turn“ in der Kartographie und deutete auf die zunehmende Professionalisierung und Mechanisierung bei der Erfassung von Basisdaten für die Erstellung „immer naturgetreuerer“ Karten hin, insbesondere - aber nicht darauf beschränkt - im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.