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Pablo Iván Azócar Fernández
Manfred Ferdinand Buchroithner
Paradigms in
Cartography
An Epistemological Review of the 20th
and 21st Centuries
Paradigms in Cartography
Pablo Iván Azócar Fernández
Manfred Ferdinand Buchroithner
Paradigms in Cartography
An Epistemological Review
of the 20th and 21st Centuries
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Pablo Iván Azócar Fernández
Departamento de Cartografía
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Santiago de Chile
Chile
Manfred Ferdinand Buchroithner
Institute for Cartography
Dresden University of Technology
Dresden
Germany
ISBN 978-3-642-38892-7
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-38893-4
ISBN 978-3-642-38893-4
(eBook)
Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013940745
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Preface
This book represents the outcome of a fruitful and amicable cooperation over the
past years. It is the result of intensive and partly controversial discussions between
representatives of two ‘‘scientific generations’’. One of them (Manfred Ferdinand
Buchroithner—MFB), initially coming from hardcore geosciences
and
philosophy
and subsequently, motivated by years in the international mapping business,
professionally moving to cartography; the other (Pablo Azócar Fernández—PAF),
starting with geography/cartography and then developing an ever-increasing
interest in theoretical and philosophical aspects of cartography. Influenced by his
academic teachers in philosophy Rudolf Freundlich, Ernst Topitsch and Rudolf
Haller MFB grew up in the tradition of the Vienna Circle and the thinking of Karl
Popper and Bertrand Russell. In the early stages of his cartographic activities he
was influenced by the epistemological views of his teacher at ITC (Enschede, NL)
Sikke A. Hempenius and his predecessor at the Chair for Cartography at TU
Dresden, Germany, the great East German theoretician Rudi Ogrissek. PAF was
molded by the Latin-American cartographic thinking. Lectures about
Geography’s
Theory
at the beginning of 1990s, taught by the distinguished teacher Margarita
Riffo Rosas (University of Chile), permitted him to immerse into philosophical
topics related to geography. Soon, the question arose why these analyses are not
applied to the field of cartography. After this motivational early phase of expe-
rience PAF’s main focus turned to the relationships between philosophy, episte-
mology, cartography and mapping. During his doctoral research in Dresden,
Germany, he deepened the aforementioned topics which are not sufficiently
studied in South America.
The interest in the growing of our book by colleagues in Santiago and Dresden
is gratefully acknowledged. We want to thank Wolf Günther Koch, Alexander
Wolodtschenko and Dirk Burghardt, Dresden, for their continuous provision of the
literature on the topics studied. Particular thanks go to Török Zsolt, Budapest and
W. G. Koch for their critical reading of various stages of the book and their
indispensible comments. We are also grateful to Mrs. Sharma and the staff of the
TU Dresden Institute for Cartography. Pilar Correa from the Metropolitan Tech-
nological University (Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana—UTEM, Chile)
took care of the finalisation and homogenisation of the figures which we two
authors created with our limited skills in graphic software. Our sincere
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