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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

History of Land Surveying

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 544-0023/05
Abbreviation DZ
Course title History of Land Surveying
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator RNDr. Ladislav Plánka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Prehistory and antiquity in geodesy and cartography.
2. The middle ages in cartography (ecclesiastical, maritime, non-European cartography) and geodesy.
3. Discoveries and travelers, significant geodetic figures and expeditions.
4. Renaissance and reformation in geodesy and cartography.
5. Old and historical instruments and instruments for measuring basic geodetic quantities and for cartometric tasks.
6. Development of leveling, tachymetry, trigonometry and photogrammetry.
7. Development of instrumentation and methods of mining.
8. Detailed mapping of European countries, development of land registry in the territory of the Habsburg monarchy.
9. Old and historical cartographic works on the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (and Slovakia).
10. Institutional provision of geodetic and cartographic services in the past.
11. Significant producers of geodetic instruments and aids and significant cartographic houses, their history.
12. Historical methods of cartographic production, production and printing of maps.
13. Development of automation and digital methods in geodesy and cartography.
14. Significant map collections and archives, museums and geodetic artifacts in the landscape

Literature

WOODWARD, David, HARLEY, J. Brian: History of Cartography. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, Vol. 1 – 3, 1987 – 2007, available online (free): http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/
MILLER Frederic P., VANDOME Agnes F., McBREWSTER Johnb (eds.): History of Geodesy. Alphascript Publishing, 2010, 136 s.

Advised literature

Virtual museum of surveying (http://www.surveyhistory.org/)