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| 6.3 Exhibitions
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| Monday, July 9 to Thursday, July 12, 2007, 11:00-14:00 |
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State Archive of Berne
Falkenplatz 4, CH-3001 Bern
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The way to Bern: from Thomas Schoepf to Google Earth
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The first part of the exhibition will present the most significant cartographic pieces from the 16th to the 21st
century - several of which very decorative large-scale manuscript maps - that are kept at the State Archives of the canton of
Berne. The second part of the exhibition is divided into themes: territorial plans, military and fortification maps, road
maps, hydrographic maps, forest maps. Foremost is the famous map of the Bernese territory by Thomas Schoepf from 1578, which
also marked the beginning of Bernese cartography. In addition, there are maps from the 17th century by Valentin Friedrich,
Josef Plepp, Hans Conrad Gyger and Pierre Willomet, and masterpieces from the 18th century by Samuel Bodmer, Johann Adam
Riediger, Johann Anton Herbort and Albrecht Knecht. Furthermore, the so-called "Nidau School", which developed from a group
of surveyors and commissioners, is represented with plans by Abraham Pagan, Emanuel Schmalz and Ludwig Müller. The age of
modern surveying begins with a short representation of triangulation which was initiated in Berne by Johann Georg Tralles,
professor of Mathematics and Experimental Physics, and carried out by one of his students, Friedrich Trechsel from Burgdorf.
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Responsible: Barbara Studer, Silvia Bühler, Jürg Stebler
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