标题：“Vienna, late 18th century…”: Birth and importance of two monuments of Greek cartographic heritage, the Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta and the Anthimos Gazis’ Pinax, from a digital point of view
出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：Rigas Velestinlis (1757 1798) is a major representative of the Greek Enlightenment in the late18thcentury. Among Rigas' works, writings and translations, his cartographic productionthough limited in number of maps, is of particular importance. Especially his masterpiece, theCharta, a 12 sheet 2X2 metres map in ca. 1:600.000 scale, printed in Vienna (1796–1797),representing Southeast Europe (the Balkan peninsula), is now considered an officially declared monument of Greek cultural heritage. Three years later (1800), also in Vienna, anothergreat personality of the Greek Enlightenment, Anthimos Gazis (1758 1828), the scholar parish priest of Vienna's Greek Orthodox Church of St George, published his own map ofGreece, the Pinax, a 4 sheet, 1X1 m. map, in ca. 1:1.200.000 scale, representing the samegeographic area as in Charta. Even though in the relevant bibliography, Pinax is considered a"new edition" of Rigas' Charta, it is actually an entirely different map.Despite its historical cartographic importance, Charta, as well as the Pinax, are only known(principally from a scholar or literary point of view) among few experts mainly in Greece,practically unknown abroad, even if both maps are extremely rare and highly priced in the international map Collectionism. In this paper, starting from the analysis of the "external cartographic identification" for both maps and using digital processes the two maps, both born inVienna, are put in comparative evidence giving new insights as important elements of Greekcartographic heritage
