MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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May 27, 2021
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group

We will continue last month’s discussion of geodesy, surveying, and mapping in colonial settings. To initialize discussion we will read the following texts:

  • Ernesto Capello, ‘From Imperial Pyramids to Anticolonial Sundials: Commemorating and Contesting French Geodesy in Ecuador’, Journal of Historical Geography 62 (October 2018): 37–50.
  • Chapter I of Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).
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In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.

About This Series

Born originally out of the activities of the Measuring the Earth digitalization project within the Art of Judgement research cluster, the discussion group expands the former's focus on the history of geodesy to explore the broader historiographical debate on instances of measurement and surveying in the geosciences.

2021-05-27T14:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2021-05-27 14:00:00 2021-05-27 15:00:00 Measuring the Earth Discussion Group We will continue last month’s discussion of geodesy, surveying, and mapping in colonial settings. To initialize discussion we will read the following texts: Ernesto Capello, ‘From Imperial Pyramids to Anticolonial Sundials: Commemorating and Contesting French Geodesy in Ecuador’, Journal of Historical Geography 62 (October 2018): 37–50. Chapter I of Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Europe/Berlin public