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Uebersichts-Karte von Ost-Hoch-Asien (Survey map of eastern High Asia), Berlin 1839
Uebersichts-Karte von Oest-Hoch-Asien ... Berlin. 1839. (Survey Map of East-High-Asia ... Berlin, 1839.)
J. L. Grimm and H. Mahlmann (Atlas von Asien to Ritter's Erdkunde), Berlin 1839
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation from published surveys and travel reports; no observation by the mapmaker.
Research notes
- Compiled; depends on Klaproth and Jesuit material.
Why it matters
Ritter's 'Hoch-Asien' concept mapped in 1839: replaces 'Chinese Tartary' with a physical-geographic term; documents the German scholarly vocabulary Humboldt and Ritter used in the 1840s.
Places named
Eastern High Asia: Tibet, Kunlun, Tarim basin, Mongolia, western China
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- this one was drawn from it (probable)d'Anville base
- this one was drawn from it (probable)Klaproth
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