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Identifier: annalesdegogra15soci (find matches)
Title: Annales de géographie
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Société de géographie (France)
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Paris, A. Colin (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Ottawa

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sie centrale et au Turkestan lœuvre sibrillamment commencée par Richthofen. Lindo-Chine et le Yun-nandun côté, la Birmanie et lHimalaya de lautre, se laissaient arracherquelques-uns de leurs secrets. Les découvertes se succédaient auTurkestan, en Perse, en Somalie, dans lAfrique orientale, à Mada-gascar. En moins de trois ans, lhistoire ancienne de lAfrique chan-geait absolument de face, grâce à quelques trouvailles de fossilesopportunément faites au Soudan, au Cameroun, au Sahara, en Tunisie,en Egypte, au iMaroc. De la chaîne des Andes argentines, bolivienneset péruviennes arrivaient des constatations inattendues. Lexplora-tion du Far West américain et celle de la Colombie anglaise faisaient derapides progrés. Le développement des exploitations aurifères attiraitavec profit les géologues dans lAlaska. Nansen, sur la Terre François-Joseph ; Sverdrup, sur celle dEllesmere; dautres enfin au Groenland,au Spitsberg, à lîle des Ours, montraient quelles richesses géolo-
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102 GÉOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE. giques peuvent cacher les rivages de la mer du Pôle Nord. Enfin, dela terre antarctique, lexpédition Nordenskjold rapportait les plu&précieuses révélations. Dès le début de ce travail, la seule force des choses a suffi pourfaire naître lidée dun changement à introduire dans le canevas des-tiné aux mappemondes paléogéographiques. Jusqualors, tous les-auteurs dessais de ce genre avaient uniformément choisi le plani-sphère de Mercator. Rien que limpossibilité dy prendre acte desrenseignements venus des contrées arctiques était de nature à éveillerle désir dy substituer quelque chose où cet inconvénient fût évité.Mais dautres raisons encore militaient en faveur dun changement. La projection de Mercator a été conçue en vue des marins, auxbesoins desquels elle satisfait parfaitement. Cette projection repré-sente, presque sans déformation, les parages voisins des tropiques etde lÉquateur, cest-à-dire ceux où se rencontre habit

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  • bookid:annalesdegogra15soci
  • bookyear:1891
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Soci__t___de_g__ographie__France_
  • booksubject:Geography
  • bookpublisher:Paris__A__Colin__etc__
  • bookcontributor:Robarts___University_of_Toronto
  • booksponsor:University_of_Ottawa
  • bookleafnumber:118
  • bookcollection:robarts
  • bookcollection:universityofottawa
  • bookcollection:toronto
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