History of Cartography International Symposium of the ICA, 2012 /

This volume collects 22 papers presented at the 4th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, on 28-29 June 2012. The overall conference theme is 'Exploration - Discovery - Cartography', but preference...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Liebenberg, Elri. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Collier, Peter. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Török, Zsolt Gyözö. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA),
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33317-0
Table of Contents:
  • Redefining Imperial Borders: Marking the Eastern Border of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
  • Exploring and mapping the Danube: Reading a hydrographical map of Buda and Pest (1833)
  • Saxony’s role in the measurement of the Central European Meridian Arc as an international geodetic project since 1862
  • Media-related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch
  • Exploring along the Rome Meridian –  Roger Boscovich and the First Modern Map of the Papal States
  • The Mineral Maps of L. F. Marsigli and the Mystery of a Mine Map
  • The long life of a 1:200 000 map of Central Europe and the Balkans
  • Villages, Actors of Local Cartography? The Cadastral Maps of the Banat (1772-79)
  • The Historical Evolution of Craiova Municipality (Romania) Results from the Analysis of Cartographic Documents
  • A Brief History of the Boundary Mapping Between Indonesia  and Timor-Leste
  • Colonial Powers and Geographic Naming -A Case study of Orchid Island (Lanyu), Taiwan.