This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in the late eighteenth century. To do so, it focuses on the analysis of a document written by the cartographer Juan Polo y Catalina titled “Discourse on the need to ascertain the productive surface of the states, work done with this purpose by all the powers of Europe, and means used to know it”. This analysis raises the issue of image, as well as topics related to map-building such as the combination of theory and practice, the progressive impulse, the quest for productivity in the Spanish provinces and, significantly, the limitations and findings of this technical exercise in achieving accuracy as a key element of the pursuits of Geo...
<p>A finales del siglo XVIII, tras la emancipación de la Geografía de las Ciencias Matemáticas y la ...
Among the numerous activities carried out by the Military Engineers in the American territories unde...
The article analyzes the evolution of the Spanish Geography up to the Civil War. It stresses Geograp...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in ...
This article examines the first attempts to establish a modern delimitation of the Pyrenean border b...
This article examines the first attempts to establish a modern delimitation of the Pyrenean border b...
[EN] The usual sources of information at a local scale of the American territories conquered by the...
La Geografía, tal y como se entiende a comienzos del siglo XIX por parte de los criollos ilustrados ...
Landscape drawing in engineering. The landscape collection of the Commission for the Geological Map ...
This article aims to stimulate research on eighteenth century America within the scope of historical...
Esse artigo analisa as formas de produção de mapas na França e na Inglaterra durante o século XVIII....
Among the many sciences which flourished in 18th century Spain, that of cartography developed consid...
<p>A finales del siglo XVIII, tras la emancipación de la Geografía de las Ciencias Matemáticas y la ...
Among the numerous activities carried out by the Military Engineers in the American territories unde...
The article analyzes the evolution of the Spanish Geography up to the Civil War. It stresses Geograp...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in...
This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in ...
This article examines the first attempts to establish a modern delimitation of the Pyrenean border b...
This article examines the first attempts to establish a modern delimitation of the Pyrenean border b...
[EN] The usual sources of information at a local scale of the American territories conquered by the...
La Geografía, tal y como se entiende a comienzos del siglo XIX por parte de los criollos ilustrados ...
Landscape drawing in engineering. The landscape collection of the Commission for the Geological Map ...
This article aims to stimulate research on eighteenth century America within the scope of historical...
Esse artigo analisa as formas de produção de mapas na França e na Inglaterra durante o século XVIII....
Among the many sciences which flourished in 18th century Spain, that of cartography developed consid...
<p>A finales del siglo XVIII, tras la emancipación de la Geografía de las Ciencias Matemáticas y la ...
Among the numerous activities carried out by the Military Engineers in the American territories unde...
The article analyzes the evolution of the Spanish Geography up to the Civil War. It stresses Geograp...