Landscapes and Charting in the Nineteenth Century: Neapolitan-Austrian and English cooperation in the Adriatic Sea

The study of nautical cartography enjoys a well established historical tradition of long standing and, in many ways, the interest awakened by medieval nautical-cartographical monuments, and the pertinent pioneering studies, has led to a growth in research into the whole field of ancient and modern geo-cartography. The fundamental role played by research in and studies of nautical cartography within other fields of research such as, for example, history of exploration, of geographical knowledge and of linguistic and toponomastic variations, has been demonstrated over and over again in the course of the last century. Apart from the historical studies and analysis early developed within the 'nautical map' phenomenon, for reasons which were on occasion purely coincidental, it should be noticed that this extraordinary means of orientation and depiction of geographical space appeared somewhat earlier than the terrestrial equivalent.