Mathematical Demonstration of Astronomical and Geographical Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 375-386
Author(s):  
Wen-Chi Chen ◽  
Jin-De Chang ◽  
Wen-Hong Chiu ◽  
Cheng-Lung Lee ◽  
Hui-Ru Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Mathematical Demonstration

Transition in Knowledge of Chinese Geography in Early Modern Europe: A Historical Investigation on Maps of China

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Jingdong YU
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
New Production ◽  
The West ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Intercultural Interactions

During the 17th and 18th centuries, European investigations into Chinese geography underwent a process of change: firstly, from the wild imagination of the classical era to a natural perspective of modern trade, then historical interpretations of religious missionaries to the scientific mapping conducted by sovereign nationstates. This process not only prompted new production of maps, but also disseminated a large amount of geographical knowledge about China in massive publications. This has enriched the geographical vision of Chinese civilization while providing a new intellectual framework for Europeans to understand China. Concurrently, it has formed another route for the travel of knowledge and intercultural interactions between the East and the West. Those interactions between space and knowledge have been reflected in the production, publication and dissemination of numerous maps of China in early modern Europe.

Re-Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Geographical Knowledge and Ecuadorean Multiculturalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH A. RADCLIFFE
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
State Projects

AbstractStarting from an understanding that maps of an entire nation-state territory reflect and regulate state projects and expressions of national identity, rather than providing detailed technical information for decision making, this paper examines the national maps of race/ethnicity produced under Ecuador's state-led multiculturalism. Using national-scale cartography as a means to examine contested processes of rearticulating state, citizen and nation, the paper analyses recent transformations in cartography, nation building and geographical knowledge in Ecuador. Directing a critical analysis towards the ways maps of indigenous populations are produced, circulated, authorised and read provides a distinctive lens by which to explore postcolonial questions of belonging, rights and presence. The paper discusses how, despite the emergence of innovative maps, the plurinational project envisaged by indigenous cartographers remains stymied by a series of material, cultural and postcolonial limitations.

Patterns in Early Greek Colonisation

1971 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Large Numbers

The centuries before the Greeks began to write history are of the greatest interest and significance, but they are also for the historian full of uncertainty, obscurity and dispute. The reason is mainly the simple inadequacy of the information with which the historian has to work, and it is partly because of that inadequacy that the colonising movement is uniquely valuable. Part of this value lies in the revealing nature of colonial activity in itself. Think what it tells us about geographical knowledge, seafaring, if not seapower, military achievements, state organisation, economic conditions—to mention only a few broad and obvious categories. But in a period so inadequately known the colonising movement is also extremely important to the historian as a source of a relatively large amount of clear and unequivocal facts. In the context of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. the fact that such and such a city sent a colony to such and such a place constitutes a rare piece of definite and valuable knowledge. Since it is also possible to assign dates to large numbers of colonial expeditions, we can say that the colonising movement provides a large amount of extremely significant historical information, which is in general terms clear and definite and relatively well dated.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH IN THE KEMEROVO REGION

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Надежда Егорова ◽  
Nadezhda Egorova ◽  
Юрий Удодов ◽  
Yurii Udodov
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Kuznetsk Coal ◽  
Coal Basin ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Kuznetsk Coal Basin ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
History Of

<p>The article describes the main stages of development of geographical knowledge about nature, economy and population in theKemerovoregion. The stage of initial accumulation of geographical knowledge and the development of the mineral riches of the plains and mountain areas of the region was defined. The article features the contribution of the explorers to the study of the physiographic features of the Kuznetsk region, the contribution of scientific research in academic and interdisciplinary expeditions to expand the knowledge about the territory. It defines the role of geologists in the discovery, exploration and in the study of the region and the Kuznetsk coal basin. The author has selected special Lutugin and Soviet stages in the development of geological knowledge, including that about the Kuznetsk coal basin (Kuzbass). The article specifies the contribution of scientists to the study of the relief, climate and inland waters, including the contribution of botanists, zoologists, soil scientists of theTomskandNovosibirskuniversities in the study of soil-vegetation cover of theKemerovoregion. The emphasis is on physical-geographical and economic-geographical research, the role of the Department of geography, Geology and geography teaching methodology in these studies. In conclusion, a retrospective of the main stages of geographical research of the territory of theKemerovoregion and their event content was constructed.</p>

scholarly journals The Concept of “Contemporary Place Names” in the Tibetan Translation of the Da Tang Xiyu Ji

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Tokio Takata
Keyword(s):  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Tibetan Translation ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Manuscript Copy

The Da Tang Xiyu ji (Тhe Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) was translated into Tibetan by the Mongolian scholar Gombojab (Mgon-po-skyabs) of the Qing dynasty (16441912), using the original Chinese text of the Qianlong Tripitaka, also called the Dragon Tripitaka. In the manuscript copy kept at Otani University (Kyoto), interlinear explanatory notes of the contemporary place names are found. The notes on the Central Asian place names might reflect the new geographical knowledge that Chinese society obtained after Qianlongs campaigns against the Dzungars. In the present paper, the author discusses some of these notes. As the notes are not accurate and contain much misunderstanding, it is hard to use them as research sources. Nevertheless, they reveal the scope of knowledge of the time and deserve attention.

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