Geography and Cassini IV
Witness and Victim of Social and Disciplinary Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Godlewska (0000-0003-4862-9660, Queen's University / Ontario / Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 25-39 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/22kn-0504-7231-uv47 |
| OpenAlex | W2166402379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay explores the meaning of the demise of the scientific career of Jacques-Dominique, Comte de Cassini (Cassini IV). Cassini, astronomer, cartographer, poet, and political reactionary in Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary France, was cast out of science in the course of the French Revolution. Cassini, unlike many colleagues, publicly fought his academic exile. Partly as a result of that resistance, Cassini's life and writings provide insight into the changing role and status of large-scale cartography in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, both in geography and as "science
Art · Art history · Astronomer · Demise · Discipline · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Witness · Historical Geography and Cartography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |