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„The singular state of the ice“. Das kartografische Wissen des Walfängers William Scoresby (2017)

Holtorf, Christian (Author)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 64-85

URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bewi.201701806

DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201701806

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“The singular state of the ice”. The Cartographic Knowledge of the Whaler William Scoresby. The English whaler William Scoresby, Jr. (1790–1857) made use of his annual voyages to the Greenland Sea for distinguished scientific work, detailed records and the production of amazing maps. Due to his intensive contacts to scientists as Robert Jameson and politicians as Joseph Banks and John Barrow his research achieved a great deal of attention and set a benchmark for at least half a century. Scoresby combined the adventurous world of Arctic fishery with academic sciences. He attained the northernmost point anybody reached in his time, he extended the cartographic knowledge and forced the conquest and utilisation of the oceans for commercial fishing. But his biography enquires also about who got an opportunity for research and for what. Especially it demonstrates the strong impact practical knowledge of a whaler could have on geographic research and Arctic cartography.

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