Early thematic mapping: The work of Philippe Buache

Kish, George

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“…50 The map shows an explicit connection between the river network and the contributing area or drainage basin, then applies his idea to all the rivers of Europe. Although Buache was criticized for this proposal of mapping the globe as drainage basins during and after his lifetime, 51 his work serves today as a foundation for thematic surveys, and the quantification of hydrographic basins as a theme. 51 Figure 10 is a portion of Buache's map from his 1753 essay, which explicitly outlines the drainage basin enclosing the river network for the major rivers of Europe.…”

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“…Note that Buache indicates the source or highest elevation in each basin. Buache then introduces another scale along the right edge of each basin that indicates the extent of the subsurface body of water belonging to that basin (p. 132). This establishes it seems for the first time a spatial representation of the geometry and geographic domain of the modern hydrologic balance, and further indicates the extent of the groundwater reservoir within each river basin as proposed by Silberschlag.…”

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The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance

Duffy

2017

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In this article, I explore the evolving historical views of the terrestrial hydrologic cycle through a lens that might be called 'a model of balance.' The notion of balance in western literature, seems to me to capture a central theme for how scholars of natural history, medieval mathematicians, designers of scientific instruments, and early waterworks engineers viewed the complexities and evaluated the evidence for how water moves in the terrestrial landscape. Using historical images and text, this study attempts to document how we arrived at the modern interpretation, its sources, origins, and relationships within the terrestrial earth. By comparing ancient models for the hydrologic cycle one can begin to construct a plausible story of its evolution as well as the important actors. I pay particular attention to the origins and sources of springs, rivers, and groundwater, the kinds of evidence proposed, and its relation to the sense of balance that emerges. Finally, I argue that at by the end of the 18th and into the early 19th century, the modern view of the terrestrial hydrologic cycle that emerged became a necessary foundation for the geophysical, ecological, and cultural Earth science themes that still flourish today.

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The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance

Duffy

2017

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“…Stung by criticism from one of the Academy's rising stars, the botanist Georges‐Leclerc de Buffon, the opening volume of whose Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749) rejected the idea of geography as a science of the earth's structural characteristics (Spary ), Guettard and Buache produced two further mémoires in 1751 and 1752 identifying mineralogical affinities between France and Egypt and the Americas and Switzerland (Kish ; Laboulais )…”

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Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th‐century France

Heffernan

2013

Trans Inst British Geog

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This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early‐modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century's pre‐eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independent science in 1730, a century before the establishment of the first geographical societies. Although the Academy was centrally concerned with cartography from its inception in 1666, it initially afforded no official status to geography, which was viewed either as a specialised form of historical inquiry or as a minor component within the hegemonic science of astronomy. The rise of Newtonian mathematics and the associated controversy about the shape of the earth challenged the Academy's epistemological foundations and prompted a debate about the educational and political significance of geography as a scientific practice. The death in 1726 of Guillaume Delisle, a prominent Academy astronomer‐cartographer and a popular geography tutor to the young Louis XV, led to a spirited campaign to elect Philippe Buache, Delisle's protégé, to a new Academy position as a geographer rather than an astronomer. The campaign emphasised the social and political utility of geography, though the Academy's decision to recognise this new and distinctively modern science was ultimately facilitated by traditional networks of patronage within the French Royal Court.

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The Perrey Archive: a story about collecting earthquakes and eruptions

Guerra

2023

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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Early thematic mapping: The work of Philippe Buache

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The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance

The terrestrial hydrologic cycle: an historical sense of balance

Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th‐century France

The Perrey Archive: a story about collecting earthquakes and eruptions

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