Geography Unbound
Subtitle: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780226300474
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of science; c 1700 to c 1800; Science; History: World; Earth Sciences - Geography; Europe - France; History; Science / History; 18th century; 19th century; France; Geography; Philosophy
First sentence: Most scholars looking at eighteenth-century geography have described it as essentially cartography or nothing if not mapping.