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„The singular state of the ice“. Das kartografische Wissen des Walfängers William Scoresby
Author(s) -
Holtorf Christian
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
berichte zur wissenschaftsgeschichte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1522-2365
pISSN - 0170-6233
DOI - 10.1002/bewi.201701806
Subject(s) - arctic , state (computer science) , the arctic , commercial fishing , history , conquest , fishing , biography , oceanography , geography , archaeology , art history , environmental ethics , political science , law , ancient history , philosophy , geology , computer science , algorithm
Abstract “The singular state of the ice”. The Cartographic Knowledge of the Whaler William Scoresby . The English whaler William Scoresby, Jr. (1790–1857) made use of his annual voyages to the Greenland Sea for distinguished scientific work, detailed records and the production of amazing maps. Due to his intensive contacts to scientists as Robert Jameson and politicians as Joseph Banks and John Barrow his research achieved a great deal of attention and set a benchmark for at least half a century. Scoresby combined the adventurous world of Arctic fishery with academic sciences. He attained the northernmost point anybody reached in his time, he extended the cartographic knowledge and forced the conquest and utilisation of the oceans for commercial fishing. But his biography enquires also about who got an opportunity for research and for what. Especially it demonstrates the strong impact practical knowledge of a whaler could have on geographic research and Arctic cartography.