Le Monde sur une feuille. Les tableaux comparatifs de montagnes et de fleuves dans les atlas du XIXe siècle. Arts wood holds a special place

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Biomimicry and Architecture can attract a wide audience

Le Monde sur une feuille. Les tableaux comparatifs de montagnes et de fleuves dans les atlas du XIXe siècle. Arts wood holds a special placeAlthough representations of mountain profiles have been documented since the Renaissance, it was not until the very end of the 18th century that the first "comparative tables" of data collected by explorers crisscrossing the world appeared: heights of mountains and waterfalls, lengths of rivers, surface areas of lakes or islands, etc. This type of representation, which offers "men who want to see [] a microcosm on a sheet of paper," to use the words