El dibujante ingeniero hacia la universalidad de la dualidad arte/técnica en la cartografía militar del siglo XVIII

Abstract

The conceptual guidelines followed by this paper involve ascertaining the progress made in the second half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century in spatial representation methods used by military professionals, chiefly engineers and cartographers, through the mapping processes common to this technical and artistic discipline. One of the main lines of argument is the relationship and balance between technical and artistic issues as a means of providing a suitable approach to and understanding of the aforementioned process of development, which, in the second half of the modern era, enabled mapmaking to gradually acquire a scientific language without it necessarily undermining the resources relating to the aesthetic component of the process of graphic and pictorial representation.