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The atlas of the geographer and ethnologist Richard Andree (1835-1912) was published between 1881 and 1937 in various editions. The volume shown in the exhibition is the second edition with 120 maps. Zinc plates were used to produce the maps in this atlas, as these allowed a finer gradation of colours than chromolithography. Shown here […]

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Heinrich Wettstein (1831-1895), a teacher and member of the department of education in Zurich, developed numerous text books for various branches of the natural sciences and was involved in the creation of a new school atlas. Johannes Randegger (1830-1900) from Winterthur came from a poor background. Thanks to his great talent for drawing, he was […]

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The Prussian officer, geographer and cartographer Emil von Sydow (1812-1873) had a great interest in colour lithography for wall maps. The colours green for the lowlands (meadows), brown for mountains (rocks) as well as black for text and lines were his invention. Later, blue was added for water. He produced numerous maps, many of them […]

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The Winterthur born Swiss cartographer Jakob Melchior Ziegler (1801-1883) studied in Geneva under Guillaume Henri Dufour, the creator of the well-known Dufour map. In 1842, Ziegler, together with lithographer and cartographer Johann Ulrich Wurster (1814–1880), founded a very successful cartographic institution with publishing house in Winterthur. Ziegler produced numerous maps of excellent quality, including topographic […]

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The map shown in the exhibition is of northeastern Germany. The borders of the different parts are clearly marked in this map. Other parts of the world were not as well known, explored or surveyed at that time. In the map of Africa, for example, the borders of the different countries are only indicated at […]

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Austrian cartographer and writer Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly (1766-1820) began work on his extensive Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt in 1789, but had to abandon it in 1806 due to the Napoleonic Wars. The atlas therefore only covers Europe, but with 830 sheets, it is one of the most extensive atlases. Von Reilly’s […]

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In September 2018, the library of the Department of Geography (GIUZ) was integrated into the Main Library – Science (Y15). A large part of the library’s collection is now accessible in the open access area on floor J. The collection includes not only numerous modern publications on the wide-ranging topics and research areas of geography, […]

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