Connections and exchanges in European thematic cartography. The case of 19th century choropleth maps

In the beginning of the 19th century, thematic cartography was enriched with subjects related to the human world. In particular, the enthusiasm for statistics put on the foreground several topics drawn from what we would call today “social sciences”: demography, political economics, and moral statis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilles Palsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2008-12-01
Series:Belgeo
Subjects:
map
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11893