Science on the Roof of the World
Science on the Roof of the World

Author: Lachlan Fleetwood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 100927564X

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When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and environmental order. Lachlan Fleetwood traces untold stories of scientific measurement and collecting, indigenous labour and expertise, and frontier-making to provide the first comprehensive account of the East India Company's imperial entanglements with the Himalaya. To make the Himalaya knowable and globally comparable, he demonstrates that it was necessary to erase both dependence on indigenous networks and scientific uncertainties, offering an innovative way of understanding science's global history, and showing how geographical features like mountains can serve as scales for new histories of empire.

The History of Cartography, Volume 4
The History of Cartography, Volume 4

Author: Matthew H. Edney

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 1803

ISBN-13: 022633922X

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Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.

Architecturalized Asia
Architecturalized Asia

Author: Vimalin Rujivacharakul

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9888208055

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How did terms like “Asia,” “Eurasia,” “Indochina,” “Pacific Rim” or “Australasia” originate and evolve, and what are their connections to the built environment? In addressing this question,Architecturalized Asia bridges the fields of history and architecture by taking “Asia” as a discursive structure and cultural construct, whose spatial and ideological formation can be examined through the lenses of cartography, built environments, and visual narratives. The first section, on the study of architecture in Asia from the medieval through early modern periods, examines icons and symbols in maps as well as textual descriptions produced in Europe and Asia. The second section explores the establishment of the field of Asian architecture as well as the political and cultural imagining of “Asia” during the long nineteenth century, when “Asia” and its regions were redefined in the making of modern world maps mainly produced in Europe. The third section examines tangible structures produced in the twentieth century as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia. In exploring the ways in which “Asia” has been drawn and framed both within and without the continent, this volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on architectural history, world history and the history of empires. Written by architectural historians and historians specializing in Asia and European empires, this unique volume addresses the connection between Asia and the world through the lenses of built environments and spatial conceptualizations. Architecturalized Asiawill appeal to readers who are interested in Asian architecture, world architecture, Asian history, history of empires, and world history.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Four Centuries of Special Geography
Four Centuries of Special Geography

Author: O.F.G. Sitwell

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1993-11-01

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 9780774804448

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Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions. Francis Sitwell has written an extensive introduction in which he provides a detailed guide to the organization and contents of the bibliography. He also evaluates special geography as a genre which contributed to scholarly discourse from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In addition, he examines the genre as a whole and discusses its relation to the evolving world of ideas during the same time period. The result of several years of data-gathering, this book will be a valuable research tool for anyone seeking to examine aspects of the development of the field of geography in the years before it was defined as a distinct academic discipline. It will also be useful to those whose research focuses on the acquisition and transmission of geographical knowledge prior to the twentieth century, in particular on the place of geography in educational curricula.

A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

Author: James Bell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-16

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9780282293529

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Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 4 N.e. Extremity it is divided from the continent of America by Behring's straits. On the N. It is bounded by the Icy ocean, which here forms a series of obscure gulfs and promontories, extending throughout the vast space of 1 30 degrees of longitude, but of which little knowledge has yet been obtained. Its boundaryoon the E. Is the Pacific ocean, under names of the sea of Kamtschatka, the sea of Japan, the Yellow sea, the Chinese sea, 8m. On the S. It is bounded by the Indian ocean, under a variety of names derived from the difl'erent coasts which it laves, and which here forms the two great Indian peninsulas. The Arabian gulf, the isthmus of Suez, the Mediterranean, the Grecian archipelago, the Dardanelles, the sea of Marmora, the straits of constantidople, the Black sea, and a part of the imaginary line already noticed, my be considered as forming the west a'n boundaries of Asia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.