“我将开辟一条通往(非洲)内陆或危险的道路”:大卫·利文斯通与非洲地图

IF 1 4区 地球科学 Q3 GEOGRAPHY
E. Liebenberg
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摘要

摘要尽管戴维·利文斯通1840年作为一名医学传教士来到非洲南部,但他很快就屈服于地理发现的诱惑。从1849年到1873年去世,他在非洲中南部进行了广泛的旅行,并成功地不可逆转地改变了非洲大陆这一地区的地图。尽管关于他的性格、冒险和旅行已经写了很多,但关于他编制的地图却很少有人说,关于他是如何制作这些地图的也更少。本文试图通过参考他收集数据所使用的仪器、方法和技术,以及他对观测准确性的高度重视,来阐明他遗产中这一不为人知的方面。人们还注意到他与英国皇家海角天文学家托马斯·麦克利尔爵士的终身友谊,他定期将自己的观测结果发送给麦克利尔先生进行检查,以及他与皇家地理学会官方制图师约翰·阿罗史密斯的偶尔激烈的关系。
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‘I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish’: David Livingstone and the Mapping of Africa
ABSTRACT Although David Livingstone came to southern Africa in 1840 as a medical missionary, he soon succumbed to the lure of geographical discovery. Between 1849 and his death in 1873 he travelled widely in south-central Africa and managed to irreversibly change the map of this part of the continent. Although much has been written about his character, adventures and travels, little has been said about the maps he compiled and even less about how he made those maps. This article is an attempt to elucidate this rather unknown facet of his legacy by referring to the instruments, methods and techniques he used to collect his data and the high premium he put on the accuracy of his observations. Attention is also given to his life-long friendship with HM Astronomer at the Cape, Sir Thomas Maclear to whom he regularly sent his observations to be checked and his occasionally tempestuous relationship with the official cartographer of the Royal Geographical Society, John Arrowsmith.
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2.60
自引率
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期刊介绍: The Cartographic Journal (first published in 1964) is an established peer reviewed journal of record and comment containing authoritative articles and international papers on all aspects of cartography, the science and technology of presenting, communicating and analysing spatial relationships by means of maps and other geographical representations of the Earth"s surface. This includes coverage of related technologies where appropriate, for example, remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), the internet and global positioning systems. The Journal also publishes articles on social, political and historical aspects of cartography.
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