Mapping the Enlightenment is an elbow grease to map the intellectual networks of the Enlightenment inwards Europe. It aims to map both the scientific centers inwards Europe together with the travels of scholars betwixt these centers. Through visualizing these intellectual networks together with the movements of scholars Mapping the Enlightenment hopes to supply an insight into the central of noesis that shaped European scientific discipline together with applied scientific discipline inwards the 18th Century.
Currently Mapping the Environment has mapped the travels of a issue of Greek-speaking Enlightenment scholars. You tin overlay the known movements of i or to a greater extent than of these scholars on top of the website's interactive map. You tin too guide major scientific centers inwards Europe to thought all the scholars routes that passed through the selected location. It is too possible to thought the scholars' movements on the map filtered past times dissimilar scholarly contexts, for illustration teaching, publishing or political activity.
The Enlightenment's influence on cartography tin hold upwards best seen inwards the maps of the Cassini family. The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created past times 4 generations of the Cassini household unit of measurement inwards the 18th together with 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the outset genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation. This outset scientific trigonometric national survey owes much to the Age of Enlightenment together with its belief inwards reason, the scientific method together with constitutional government.
You tin thought all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on top of Google Maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
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