La science géographique en France de Cassini à Humboldt. Une mutation hésitante
This book highlights the profound change in the nature of geography between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Those who called themselves geographers in the 1760s were almost exclusively concerned with how to describe the world and its intellectual foundations. In the eighte...
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| author | Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire Claval, Paul |
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| description | This book highlights the profound change in the nature of geography between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Those who called themselves geographers in the 1760s were almost exclusively concerned with how to describe the world and its intellectual foundations. In the eighteenth century, geographical publications represented what could be seen and measured, and they were characterised above all by universal geographies, manuals of field surveying and cartography, and maps drawn by comparison with written or graphic sources. But the debate over the size and shape of the earth, between Cassini and Newton’s followers, showed the limits of representation. The transition to more modern concerns was difficult, as evidenced by the poor reception of the geography course at the Ecole Normale and the rejection of the last son of the Cassini family by revolutionary and post-revolutionary science. This phase undoubtedly gave rise to the current of hostility to all theory that persisted in French geography for over a century. The wars mobilised the discipline for a generation, encouraging it but also influencing its direction. The geographers of the time were struggling to make sense of their world at a time when public interest was turning towards the study of society and spatial planning, towards the dynamic and often invisible interactions and interconnections among natural phenomena, and towards the exploration of the environment. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1460242024-09-27T09:26:11Z La science géographique en France de Cassini à Humboldt. Une mutation hésitante Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire Claval, Paul Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Académie Royale des Sciences Balbi Barbié du Bocage Bory de Saint-Vincent Buache Cassini de Thury Chabrol de Volvic Collège de France d’Anville de Férussac École polytechnique Père Jean François Gosselin geography cartography Institut de France Jacotin Jomard Letronne Malte-Brun Mentelle Société de géographie de Paris Société ethnologique de Paris Volney Humboldt Walckenaer d'Anville geognosy military geography history of cartography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography This book highlights the profound change in the nature of geography between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Those who called themselves geographers in the 1760s were almost exclusively concerned with how to describe the world and its intellectual foundations. In the eighteenth century, geographical publications represented what could be seen and measured, and they were characterised above all by universal geographies, manuals of field surveying and cartography, and maps drawn by comparison with written or graphic sources. But the debate over the size and shape of the earth, between Cassini and Newton’s followers, showed the limits of representation. The transition to more modern concerns was difficult, as evidenced by the poor reception of the geography course at the Ecole Normale and the rejection of the last son of the Cassini family by revolutionary and post-revolutionary science. This phase undoubtedly gave rise to the current of hostility to all theory that persisted in French geography for over a century. The wars mobilised the discipline for a generation, encouraging it but also influencing its direction. The geographers of the time were struggling to make sense of their world at a time when public interest was turning towards the study of society and spatial planning, towards the dynamic and often invisible interactions and interconnections among natural phenomena, and towards the exploration of the environment. 2024-09-27T09:26:08Z 2024-09-27T09:26:08Z 2024 book ONIX_20240927_2353111637_21 28271882 2353111637 2353111645 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146024 fre eng Sp@tialités image/png Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://una-editions.fr/la-science-geographique-en-france-de-cassini-a-humboldt/ https://ressources.una-editions.fr/s/YrmJzKx8wK4QcT3 Presses Universitaires de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour Presses Universitaires de Pau et des pays de l'Adour Pôle Production Imprimé, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 10.46608/spatialites3.9782353111633 This book highlights the profound change in the nature of geography between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Those who called themselves geographers in the 1760s were almost exclusively concerned with how to describe the world and its intellectual foundations. In the eighteenth century, geographical publications represented what could be seen and measured, and they were characterised above all by universal geographies, manuals of field surveying and cartography, and maps drawn by comparison with written or graphic sources. But the debate over the size and shape of the earth, between Cassini and Newton’s followers, showed the limits of representation. The transition to more modern concerns was difficult, as evidenced by the poor reception of the geography course at the Ecole Normale and the rejection of the last son of the Cassini family by revolutionary and post-revolutionary science. This phase undoubtedly gave rise to the current of hostility to all theory that persisted in French geography for over a century. The wars mobilised the discipline for a generation, encouraging it but also influencing its direction. The geographers of the time were struggling to make sense of their world at a time when public interest was turning towards the study of society and spatial planning, towards the dynamic and often invisible interactions and interconnections among natural phenomena, and towards the exploration of the environment. 10.46608/spatialites3.9782353111633 e7e9fc49-1df6-4388-b470-1947f513e4ab 76fc7177-77e2-4250-babf-33a8364c1ba6 2353111637 2353111645 Pôle Production Imprimé, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 3 420 Pau open access |
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