This work by Nicolas Verdier addresses the formation of the so-called régime cartographique in eighteenth-century France. The author’s main argument is that in this century a fundamental shift occurred in the technical regulation of map production and in the affirmation of the supremacy of maps as a tool for the communication of geographical concepts and visions of the world.
La carte avant les cartographes; l’avènement du régime cartographique en France au XVIIIe siècle
Ferretti, Federico
2015
Abstract
This work by Nicolas Verdier addresses the formation of the so-called régime cartographique in eighteenth-century France. The author’s main argument is that in this century a fundamental shift occurred in the technical regulation of map production and in the affirmation of the supremacy of maps as a tool for the communication of geographical concepts and visions of the world.File in questo prodotto:
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