Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

Bila je to prva karta Papinske države temeljena na modernim geodetskim
i astronomskim mjerenjima. Iako se ne radi o posve originalnom djelu (Maire
i Bošković poslužili su se već postojećim kartama koje su temeljem vlastitih
terenskih mjerenja ispravili i dopunili), Maire-Boškovićeva karta Papinske
države zbog svoje znanstvene utemeljenosti i primjene metode triangulacije,
postaje općeprihvaćeni predložak za sve kasnije karte Papinske države.
U radu ćemo prikazati rezultate izvornih istraživanja Maire-Boškovićeve
karte Papinske države, kao i kasnije redakcije iste karte na kojima je kao autor
naveden Ruđer Bošković. Na temelju poredbenoga istraživanja kasnijih karata
temeljenih na Maire-Boškovićevu predlošku, ocijenit ćemo Boškovićevu ulogu
u razvoju kartografske znanosti.
Ključne riječi: Ruđer Bošković, Christopher Maire, povijest kartografije, karta Papinske
države
RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ AND HIS CONTRIBUTION
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE IN THE FIELD
OF CARTOGRAPHY
In the universal scholarly work of Ruđer Bošković, his contribution to
cartography takes a very important place. His cartographic work resulted
from his strong interests in mathematics and its applications in geosciences,
especially in geodesy. In order to determine the figure and size of the Earth, in
the period 1750–1752, accompanied by an English Jesuit Christopher Maire,
Ruđer Bošković conducted an expedition to measure the longitude of a meridian
degree between Rome and Rimini.
Thanks to their field survey based on the method of triangulation, Bošković
and Maire made a new map of the Papal State Nuova carta geografica dello
Stato Ecclesiastico. Description of their expedition is published in De litteraria
expeditione per Pontificiam ditionem by Maire and Bošković (Roma,
1755). The map of the Papal State is published as an addition to this book on a
separate sheet. French translation of the mentioned book was entitled Voyage
astronomique et géographique dans l’État de l’Église (Paris, 1770), so that the
cartographic work of Maire and Bošković became known to the French-speaking
public as well (in this edition the map is bounded into the book).
The above-mentioned map of Maire and Bošković was the first accurate
map of the Papal State based on modern geodetic and astronomic measurements.
Although the map of the Papal State made by Christoper Maire and
Ruđer Bošković is not completely their original work (they used the existing
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