Mapy i atlasy Joachima Lelewela towarzyszące jego dziełom historycznym ze szczególowym opisem opublikowanych do 1830 roku

• Authors: Lucyna Szaniawska

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Maps and atlases of Joachim Lelewel accompanying his historical works with detailed description of those published before the year 1830

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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In the article, a small part of Joachim Lelewel’s (1786-1861) scientific work is discussed. In the field of historical cartography, Lelewel was not a forerunner but he successfully transferred to the Polish ground the idea of publishing historical studies texts together with maps, which were complementing their cognitive and didactic value. His maps played a supportive role for historical treatises and in the history of science – geography and geographical discoveries. Among the historical maps he created there were ones illustrating socio-political transformations that took place over the centuries, which were described in the texts, whereas the maps attached to the studies in the history of geography presented knowledge of the ancient, medieval and renaissance writers, graphically reconstructing the notions of the world known to them – the ecumene. Lelewel’s maps illustrating texts on geographical discoveries conducted from the late Middle Ages, throughout the Renaissance, until the 17th century are in principle more or less simplified copies of the maps produced in those periods. Because of limited accessibility of ancient originals (particularly on Polish territories), they became a suitable educational source. The first one to refer to is a treatise Historyka tudzież o łatwem i pozytecznem nauczaniu historyi, where Lelewel comprised his ideas related to the methods of teaching history, telling about a necessity for combining history with other fields, i.e. geography, chronology and ethnography. That is why all his historiographic works included maps as an important element of knowledge.

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Maps and atlases of Joachim Lelewel

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów
• Journal: Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1(44)
• Pages: 7-26

Contributors

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Lucyna Szaniawska

• Biblioteka Narodowa Warszawa