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The Bruce-Mengden and Cornelis Cruys Maps of the Lower Don (1696-1705): An Inflection Point in the Practice of Russian Cartography?
Davies, Brian
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- Title
- The Bruce-Mengden and Cornelis Cruys Maps of the Lower Don (1696-1705): An Inflection Point in the Practice of Russian Cartography?
- Author(s)
- Davies, Brian
- Issue Date
- 2024-12-27
- Keyword(s)
- Cartography
- Azov
- Lower Don
- Peter I
- James Bruce
- Cornelius Cruys
- Abstract
- Maps of the lower Don and Azov region produced by James Bruce and Cornelis Cruys in connection with Peter I’s 1696 Azov campaign appear to mark the point at which cartographic work undertaken on Russian territory by specialists in Russian service began moving beyond the traditional chertezh mapping model and embraced the principles of the new Western European geodesic cartography. This was becoming possible through greater familiarization with Copernican cosmography and higher mathematics, the importation of new instruments of observation, and the establishment of new centers of calculation on Russian soil. The adoption of the new geodesic cartography served the Petrine imperial project—not only in supporting communications and logistics on the empire’s frontiers, but in winning European acknowledgment of Russian Imperial sovereignty. The process of adoption also illustrates the manner in which a network of collaborating scholars in Russia and abroad was quickly assembled.
- Publisher
- ВИВЛIОθИКА
- Type of Resource
- text
- Language
- eng
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1827
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2024 Brian Davies.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
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