%0 Book Section %1 slukanaltic2014exploring %A Slukan Altić, Mirela %B History of Cartography %D 2014 %E Liebenberg, Elri %E Collier, Peter %E Török, Zsolt Gyözö %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %K RuđerBošković %P 71-89 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-33317-0_5 %T Exploring Along the Rome Meridian: Roger Boscovich and the First Modern Map of the Papal States %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33317-0_5 %X Roger Boscovich (1711–1787) was one of the most prominent Croatian scientists of the 18th century. In his diverse scientific work, he tried his skills in cartography as well, creating the first map of the Papal States based on modern geodetic surveying principles. In order to determine the figure and size of the earth, in the period 1750–1752, Roger Boscovich, in collaboration with the English Jesuit Christopher Maire, embarked on an expedition to conduct a survey along the meridian between Rome and Rimini. On this occasion, Boscovich collected a series of field data by applying the technique of triangulation, on the basis of which he, in cooperation with Maire, prepared a new map of the Papal States ( %@ 978-3-642-33316-3

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