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- Title
Geographische Wissensproduktion - Reflexionen aus der Perspektive der geographie- und kartographiehistorischen Sammlung Perthes der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha.
- Authors
Weigel, Petra
- Abstract
The article discusses sources on the history of geography and cartography at the Perthes archival collection at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha research library of the Universität Erfurt university in Gotha, Germany. The history of the archives is considered along with the use of sources from the archives in reports in this issue on whaler William Scoresby Jr., manuals for 19th-century travelers to Asia and Africa, and the relationship between Swiss historian Emil Göldi and French historian Henri Coudreau.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL source material; CARTOGRAPHY archives; HISTORY of cartography; SCORESBY, William; ASIA description &; travel; AFRICA description &; travel; GOLDI, Emil; COUDREAU, Henri; HISTORY
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201701831