Maps in a situation of uncertainty: The Kamchatka controversy between 1737 and 1738 as an indication of a crisis in French cartography

• Main Author: Verdier, Nicolas
• Other Authors: EHGO, Géographie-cités (GC (UMR_8504)), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Rytchalovsky E. (dir.)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: EHGO; COUV; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Rendu; Peine; Bertrand; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03033067; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03033067/document; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03033067/file/Verdier%20carte%20incertitude.pdf

International audience Between 1737 and 1738, a controversy between Nicolas Belin, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville and Louis Bertrand Castel was to develop in various French media. The subject was the comparison between several maps representing Kamchatka. What is at stake at this moment is...