Mapping The Enlightenment

Mapping the Enlightenment is an endeavor to map the intellectual networks of the Enlightenment inwards Europe. It aims to map both the scientific centers inwards Europe too the travels of scholars betwixt these centers. Through visualizing these intellectual networks too the movements of scholars Mapping the Enlightenment hopes to furnish an insight into the telephone substitution of noesis that shaped European scientific discipline too technology scientific discipline inwards the 18th Century.

Currently Mapping the Environment has mapped the travels of a issue of Greek-speaking Enlightenment scholars. You tin dismiss 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 dismiss besides choose major scientific centers inwards Europe to thought all the scholars routes that passed through the selected location. It is besides possible to thought the scholars' movements on the map filtered yesteryear unlike scholarly contexts, for illustration teaching, publishing or political activity.


The Enlightenment's influence on cartography tin dismiss hold upward best seen inwards the maps of the Cassini family. The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created yesteryear 4 generations of the Cassini identify unit of measurement inwards the 18th too 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the start genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation. This start scientific trigonometric national survey owes much to the Age of Enlightenment too its belief inwards reason, the scientific method too constitutional government.

You tin dismiss thought all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on top of Google Maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.