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- Title
Spatial knowledge in atlases and encyclopedias - structural commonalities and differences in the production of space.
- Authors
Losang, Eric
- Abstract
When on January 15th 2001 wikipedia.com went online, nobody thought it will revolutionize the realm of encyclopedias that already existed for nearly 2000 years. About a decade later, the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Brockhaus Encyclopedia terminated their paper editions and went online. Nowadays, the latest printed editions often maintain an almost wholly unnoticed existence in the general knowledge sections of libraries if they were not already sold to collectors or book butchers who are only interested in valuable printed historical maps and illustrations. However, encyclopedias - like atlases - remain important sources of historical knowledge production about space and spatial narratives.
- Subjects
ENCYCLOPEDIAS &; dictionaries; ATLASES; CARTOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL maps; LIBRARIES
- Publication
Abstracts of the ICA, 2023, Vol 6, p1
- ISSN
2570-2106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/ica-abs-6-147-2023