Cartography

there was a controversy at first on the attempts to excite the interest of Chinese intellectuals towards Western scientific and technical accomplishments. Some of the great achievements made in this push towards new knowledge were the new skill of Cartography or science of map making, and geography. Which later was…

the Earth, specifically the land and its features. The subject can be divided into two categories: Physical Geography and Cartography. Physical Geography entails actual points that can be located using latitude and longitude as well as landforms, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, plateaus, etc. Cartography is the study and / or practice of drawing maps. In Cartography; one must gather data, evaluating and recording the data, then processing the information into map form. This…

industrial Manchester during the ‘hungry forties’ worked as a mechanism of the capitalist state to control the socio-spatial movement of the working class as a means of reinforcing class division. Adopting a Marxist perspective, Engels contends that the cartography of Manchester itself was built to reinforce the socio-spatial restraints of capitalist development; ‘the town itself is peculiarly built,…

Before the 1400s Europeans had very little interest for exploring the world, but when they gained the ability to travel that changed. New inventions made advances in sailing technology such as the caravel, the magnetic compass, the astrolabe, and cartography. Important factor that drove the age of exploration were wealth. Christianity, and new inventions. Several…

line to talk about the geography or the cartography of literature whose contours are drawn to map out “such complex overlays of real and fictional geographies” in literary genres (Piatti and Hurni 2011: 218). Moreover, as Franco Moretti states, geographical or the cartographical contour of literature “shapes the narrative structure of the European novel” (Moretti 1998: 8). Barbara Piatti distinguishes between the geography of literature and the cartography of literature as the latter “can be…

Reaching the Pacific ocean after a year of discovery was an accomplishment known historically around the world. Our team was brave enough to explore unknown territory, determined enough to travel 8,000 miles, clever enough to perfect cartography, and bold enough to lead almost 30 other men across the continent. I am Meriwether Lewis, and I am William Clark. I was born on August 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Virginia. I later became in charge of a rifle company where I began my adult life and…

intercontinental commerce and awareness between globally distant nations, but it didn’t only affect trade, rather it also affected the very cartography of the world and drastically affected the way that European cartographers fashioned their maps. Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca revolutionised the world and its resounding effects altered trade, cartography, architecture and economy. Conclusion Although the Mali empire had fallen due to internal…

drove the Vikings on their adventures to distant shores” (PBS.com). This article suggests to readers that the typical stereotype of brutal Vikings may not in fact be accurate. The article does this through a number of ways; including archaeology, cartography, literature, and historic accounts. For instance, archaeological discoveries such as the revelation of the Viking settlement L'Anse aux Meadows support the idea of Viking settlement. On the other hand, literature, and historic accounts often…

progress into the standard known today. Without the invention of refraction we would be many years behind in medical discoveries and vaccines, in comparison to current time. Galileo’s astrological mappings of the stars aided in the popularity of cartography. (East * * o * West). Galileo’s maps, and records or the stars made navigation less difficult. The maps of the stars could serve as a guide if lost at sea, or following the stars to a specific…

Giancarlo Casale’s The Ottoman Age of Exploration makes it a point to introduce the concept of global politics to the study of the Age of Exploration and early modern Ottoman history. Giancarlo Casale is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota and specializes in the history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Casale main purpose in this text was to provide a cohesive narration of the Ottoman Age of Exploration. Casale makes the important distinction that the European age of…