Expertise is predicated on cumulative experience. In order to make informed observations or develop scientific know-how individuals had to become active practitioners. It was embodied knowledge that served as the basis of scientific practice. Why then, did authors choose to include illustrations of practitioners at work in their treatises? In some cases like, Fra Giocondo’s …
The 17th and the 18th centuries are marked by a steadier, though still multifaceted image of the vast region south of River Don bordering the Black Sea. This was also a time when the neighboring political entities interfered heavily in the partition and governance of such territories, specifically described as buffer spaces and lands occupied …
4. Land and Peoples Between the Empires (ca. 1700) Weiterlesen »
Geographic science continued to develop in the 18th century in due part to the new discoveries and advancements in ways to measure the Earth. As maps mention the toponyms alongside demonyms, Ukraine is referred to in conjunction with the Zaporizhia Cosacks. Different nations and populations share the lands of modern Ukraine, during that century, an area …
5. Moving People and Retracing Borders (18th Century) Weiterlesen »
By the end of the 18th century, Ukraine came under a fundamentally new political system that persisted until the October revolution. The 1768–1773 Russo-Turkish war forced the Ottomans to retreat from Crimea, leading to its 1783 annexation by Catherine II. The partitions of Poland-Lithuania, partly triggered by Polish noblemen’s support for the Sultan, brought a …
6. Between the Orient and „New Russia“. Late 18th-Century Ukraine as a Site of Contest Weiterlesen »
The institutionalization and specialization of mapmaking in the 19th century, a century therefore described by different scholars as the era of cartography, converged with theories of scientists and geographers such as Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), and Carl Ritter (1779–1859) to devise a new conceptual framework about geography and its relation to …
7. The 19th-Century Era of Cartography. Ukraine through the Lens of Maps and Atlases Weiterlesen »
In the 19th century, the railways constituted the biggest business and were one of the crucial political issues that profoundly characterized the history of the entire century. Railroad companies, according to Alfred D. Chandler (1918–2007; Chandler 1965), were among the first major enterprises to appear on the world scene at the turn of the century.The …
Around 1900, advanced geographic knowledge and a further expansion of the railway network that had been laid down in Europe in the 1830s had made the territory of today’s Ukraine more accessible. This circumstance favored not only waves of tourism towards Eastern Europe but also the scientific exploration of the region. Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen …
9. No Squirrels in Crimea. Insights into the Natural History of Ukraine (ca. 1900) Weiterlesen »
During the first half of the 20th century, the map of Central and Eastern Europe was so fundamentally reshaped that every cartographic undertaking needed several new and completely revised editions. Thus, only 20 years after The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) brought out the first edition of its Atlante Internazionale in 1927, they had to come up with …
Claudii Ptolemaei: Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82. Phototypice depictus consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, ed. Joseph Fischer [Codices e Vaticanis selecti 19], 4 vols., Lugduni Batavorum: Brill and Lipsiae: Harrassowitz 1932, vol. 2,2 Signature: Zh 500-5320/2(2 grgr Figures: Frontispiece; I (World Map, 2 parts); IX (European part of Sarmatia) The German Jesuit and geographer Josef …
Claudii Ptolemaei: Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82 Weiterlesen »
Heinrich Kiepert: Atlas Antiquus. Zehn Karten zur alten Geschichte [1861], 3rd ed., Berlin: Dietrich Reimer 1863 Signature: Zi 100-4610/b raro VII Figures: Frontispiece; Tab. 2, 3 and 10 Heinrich Kiepert’s (1818–1899) Atlas Antiquus originally contained ten historical-topographical maps when it was first edited in 1861 and underwent repeated revisions thereafter. By 1896, twelve editions had …
