From the History of Science
An early city plan of Astrakhan by Petrine geodesists, in a mid-eighteenth-century French maritime atlas
Gusarova E. V.The analysis of the engraving «The Plan of Astrakhan,» published in Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime (Paris, 1764), reveals its source in a previously unknown handmade plan of Astrakhan dating from the early 18th century. This artifact is likely the earliest city plan made by Russian geodesists who worked for Peter the Great. The article discusses the history and authorship of the plan, European interest in Astrakhan as one of the chief transit points on the road from Russia to the East, and the role of the astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle in bringing the plan to France.
Recommended bibliographic description
Gusarova E. V., An early city plan of Astrakhan by Petrine geodesists, in a mid-eighteenth-century French maritime atlas, Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Studies in History of Science and Technology], 2015, vol. 36, no. 1, p. 3–45
© Studies in the History of Science and Technology: Quarterly scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015)
ISSN 0205-9606. Индекс 70143
ISSN 0205-9606. Индекс 70143