Cartography ruled in Victorian Britain. No science did more to shape the Empire; none so thoroughly affected the British worldview. True, the Ordnance Survey (OS) was already 46 years old when Victoria became queen, but its influence on the national consciousness was first truly felt during her reign. By the 1870s, as Rachel Hewitt has written, a wide range of people in England and Wales could own ‘a lifelike cartographical mirror of their counties’.1¹

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维多利亚时代研究中的数字地图和制图

制图在维多利亚时代的英国统治。没有任何科学能为塑造帝国做出更多的贡献。没有一个如此彻底地影响了英国的世界观。的确，维多利亚女王成为女王后，军械调查局（OS）已有46岁的历史，但在她执政期间首次真正感受到了它对民族意识的影响。19世纪70年代，由于雷切尔休伊特写，各种各样的人在英格兰和威尔士拥有“他们counties'.1的栩栩如生制图镜¹