ZD214 History of Cartography

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2011 - acreditation

The information about the term Autumn 2011 - acreditation is not made public

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Milan Václav Drápela, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Konečný, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Milan Václav Drápela, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PROGRAM(D-GR4)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students should be able to: basic knowlege od development world cartography from prehistory to modern cartography and development cartography of Czech historical countries, be able operate with old maps and atlases as a sources of knowledge, style of cartographic products and documents.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of terms as history of cartography, historical cartography, old maps a atlases, historical maps and atlases. - 2. World cartography - prehistory and cartography of primitive nations. - 3. Ancient cartography - ancient East, Egypt, Celestial Empire, India, ancient Greece and Roma. - 4. Medieval cartography - European (including portolan maps), outside European, renascene of cartography. - 5. Modern cartography - epoch of great breaktrough journeys and progress in cartography - chorographical maps, gold age of atlases production, reformation of cartography, cartography of 19th century, international map of the world 1: 1,000,000. - 6. History of cartography in Czech historical countries - the first references about Czech countries in maps, wandere maps in the beginning of Midle Age. - 7. Early separate maps of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia and their derivations. - 8. Registries of land and detailed mapping for state purposes to the stable cadaster. - 9. The first, second and third military mapping. - 10. Private cartography of Czech countries from the beginning of 19th century. - 11. Analyse of old maps and loggind of results of their evaluation. - 12. Cartometric surveying in odl maps. - 13. Cartographical informative documents and map funds.
Literature
  • DRÁPELA, Milan Václav, Zbyšek PODHRÁZSKÝ, Zdeněk STACHOŇ and Kateřina TAJOVSKÁ. Dějiny kartografie - multimedialní on-line učebnice (History of Cartography - multimedial on-line manual). Brno: Geografický ústav PřF MU Brno, 2006, 50 pp. www.geogr.muni.cz/dejiny/ucebnice/. info
  • DRÁPELA, Milan Václav. Vývoj moravské kartografie. 1994, 220 s. info
  • Z dějin geodézie a kartografie. 5. Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 1986, 222 s. info
  • PRAVDA, Ján. Stručný lexikón kartografie. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2003, 325 s. ISBN 8022407631. info
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2015, autumn 2017.