History of Cartography
International Symposium of the ICA, 2012
Editors: Liebenberg, Elri, Collier, Peter, Torok, Zsolt Gyozo (Eds.)
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This volume collects 22 papers presented at the 4th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, on 28-29 June 2012. The overall conference theme is 'Exploration - Discovery - Cartography', but preference has been given to papers dealing with cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries. The papers are classified according to regional sub-themes, i.e. papers on the Americas, papers on Africa, etc.
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Redefining Imperial Borders: Marking the Eastern Border of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Pages 3-23
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Exploring and Mapping the Danube: Reading a Hydrographical Map of Buda and Pest (1833)
Pages 25-38
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Saxony’s Role in the Measurement of the Central European Meridian Arc as an International Geodetic Project Since 1862
Pages 39-55
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Media-Related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch
Pages 57-69
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Exploring Along the Rome Meridian: Roger Boscovich and the First Modern Map of the Papal States
Pages 71-89
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- History of Cartography
- Book Subtitle
- International Symposium of the ICA, 2012
- Editors
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- Elri Liebenberg
- Peter Collier
- Zsolt Gyozo Torok
- Series Title
- Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-33317-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-33317-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-33316-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-42794-7
- Series ISSN
- 2195-1705
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 336
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