Article ID: CBB800622654

Writing Cartography’s Enlightenment (2020)

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The Enlightenment poses a particular problem for map history. The period acquired a special significance as the historical fulcrum in the narrative of the history of cartography. This essay provides an historiographical summary of how the Enlightenment was accorded this significance, how it was called into question with the development of sociocultural approaches to maps and mapping, and how a comprehensive history of mapping in the period 1650–1800 – undertaken as Volume Four of the multi-volume series The History of Cartography – requires a completely restructured approach to map history.

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Authors & Contributors
Barber, Peter
Brentjes, Sonja
Brook, Timothy
Edney, Matthew H.
Gascoigne, John
Gaspar, Joaquim Alves
Journals
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Intellectual History Review
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
International Journal of Cartography
The Cartographic Journal
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Cambridge University Press
Brepols
de Gruyter
Harrassowitz
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Geography
Travel; exploration
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and culture
People
Humboldt, Alexander von
Mercator, Gerardus
Meyer, Lodewijk
Mustafa b. `Abdallah (Haggi Khalifa; Katib Chelebi)
Ricci, Matteo
Spinoza, Baruch
Time Periods
Enlightenment
16th century
18th century
Early modern
17th century
19th century
Places
Europe
France
China
Netherlands
Great Britain
Paris (France)
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