| Description |
xx, 194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Analysis |
French cartography 1660-1848 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 181-189 |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Tables.
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Cartography -- France -- History.
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| LC no. |
86011283 |
| ISBN |
0226450945 |
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