Book ID: CBB000110277

Geography unbound: French geographic science from Cassini to Humbolt (1999)

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Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 444 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description French geography from 1760 to 1830.


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Review Wood, Patricia K. (2003) Review of "Geography unbound: French geographic science from Cassini to Humbolt". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (p. 85). unapi

Review Holmqvist, Bosse (2001) Review of "Geography unbound: French geographic science from Cassini to Humbolt". Lychnos (pp. 283-285). unapi

Review Mayhew, Robert J. (2000) Review of "Geography unbound: French geographic science from Cassini to Humbolt". History of European Ideas (p. 67). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Silvano, Giovanni
Buchholz, Amrei
Anthony, Patrick
Maria Enrica D'Agostini
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna
Matteo Marcheschi
Journals
Cartographica Helvetica
Geostorie, Bolletino e Notiziario del Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Quipu
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historical Journal
Publishers
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Chicago Press
St. Martin's Press
Northern Illinois University Press
Franco Angeli
de Gruyter
Concepts
Geography
Maps; atlases
Science and politics
Cartography
Science and culture
Natural history
People
Humboldt, Alexander von
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Priestley, Joseph
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Fragonard, Honoré
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
France
Germany
England
South America
Great Britain
New Guinea
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