Az előadás címe:
Mapping and the Circulation of Statistical and Topographical Knowledge at the Turn of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth–Century East–Central Europe
Abstract:
This paper aims to examine the circulation of statistical and topographical knowledge in the context of scientific practice of mapping in East-Central Europe. As a result of various decisively determining initiatives of Enlightenment intellectual and scholarly world, by the end of the eighteenth century, maps represented not just a fusion of several protoscientific approaches, but it also made a significant visual shift in scientific culture. This shift of accent from the early modern textual descriptions to the topographical mapping, relying on measurments and quantified data, indicated a set of formative changes concerning practicing knowledge and orginizing scholarly culture. Investigating the interplays between statistical and topographical knowledge, the principal aim of this paper is to capture how the rise of the maps impacted the shift in disseminating topographical and statistical information throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.