出版社:National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要:The late eighteenth century twelve sheet map, known as "Rigas Charta", designed and produced byRigas Velestinlis, a reference personality of the Greek Enlightenment, apart of its general cartographic value, its symbolisms and its placement in the historical context of the preliminaries, it isfurther characterized by an impressive representation of a huge number of coins placed all over themap surface. These coins with origin in the ancient and medieval periods are fundamental as a major "thematic" cartographic content of this map, the importance of which is discussed in this paper
关键词:Rigas Velestinlis; Rigas Charta; Greek Enlightenment;Eighteenth century cartography; coinage