Mapping the Enlightenment is an bear witness to map the intellectual networks of the Enlightenment inward Europe. It aims to map both the scientific centers inward Europe in addition to the travels of scholars betwixt these centers. Through visualizing these intellectual networks in addition to the movements of scholars Mapping the Enlightenment hopes to render an insight into the telephone substitution of cognition that shaped European scientific discipline in addition to applied scientific discipline inward the 18th Century.
Currently Mapping the Environment has mapped the travels of a issue of Greek-speaking Enlightenment scholars. You tin overlay the known movements of 1 or to a greater extent than of these scholars on top of the website's interactive map. You tin besides choose major scientific centers inward Europe to stance all the scholars routes that passed through the selected location. It is besides possible to stance the scholars' movements on the map filtered past times dissimilar scholarly contexts, for example teaching, publishing or political activity.
The Enlightenment's influence on cartography tin hold upwards best seen inward the maps of the Cassini family. The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created past times 4 generations of the Cassini identify unit of measurement inward the 18th in addition to 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the outset genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation. This outset scientific trigonometric national survey owes much to the Age of Enlightenment in addition to its belief inward reason, the scientific method in addition to constitutional government.
You tin stance all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on top of Google Maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
