Charte der Kriegs Operationen am Donn und Dnieper. Ihro Russisch Key Serl: Maiesty: gloriousen Armeen A 1736. .
| Reference: | S26703 |
| Author | Accademia delle Scienze |
| Year: | 1736 ca. |
| Zone: | Ukraine |
| Printed: | St. Petersbourg |
| Measures: | 455 x 385 mm |
€775.00
| Reference: | S26703 |
| Author | Accademia delle Scienze |
| Year: | 1736 ca. |
| Zone: | Ukraine |
| Printed: | St. Petersbourg |
| Measures: | 455 x 385 mm |
€775.00
Description
Very rare map of the southern part of Ukraine, with an explanatory key A-N in lower right.
One of five maps published by Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg for use by Russian army during Russian-Turkish war started in 1735. Bagrow thinks they are based on some French maps.
All these maps are huge step back comparing with Beauplan. When the maps have been send for review to the front line, one of the officers replied: "Maps are totally erroneous and have nothing to do with real topography and distances, and therefore any improvement is impossible". Unfortunately publishers in Western Europe have not seen this review, and the maps were widely copied in Germany and Netherlands for about next thirty years.
Copperplate with fine hand colour, trimmed to the platemark, Elaborate cartouche on upper right corner, small repaired area at lower right corner, generally in very good conditions.
Literature
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Atlas Ukrainae et Ponti Euxini (C15-18), 42.
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The Academy was founded in Saint Petersburg by Peter the Great, inspired and advised by Gottfried Leibniz, and implemented in the Senate decree of February 8, 1724. It was originally called The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences . The name varied over the years, becoming The Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Imperial Academy of Sciences, and finally, The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Among the foreign scholars invited to work at the academy were the mathematicians Leonhard Euler, Anders Johan Lexell, Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Nicholas and Daniel Bernoulli, botanist Johann Georg Gmelin, embryologists Caspar Friedrich Wolff, astronomer and geographer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, physicist Georg Wolfgang Kraft, and historian Gerhard Friedrich Müller.
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Literature
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Atlas Ukrainae et Ponti Euxini (C15-18), 42.
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The Academy was founded in Saint Petersburg by Peter the Great, inspired and advised by Gottfried Leibniz, and implemented in the Senate decree of February 8, 1724. It was originally called The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences . The name varied over the years, becoming The Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Imperial Academy of Sciences, and finally, The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Among the foreign scholars invited to work at the academy were the mathematicians Leonhard Euler, Anders Johan Lexell, Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Nicholas and Daniel Bernoulli, botanist Johann Georg Gmelin, embryologists Caspar Friedrich Wolff, astronomer and geographer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, physicist Georg Wolfgang Kraft, and historian Gerhard Friedrich Müller.
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