Cartographic science stems from the need for man to conceptually own, even before physically, the territory in which he found himself living. Always connected to the political and economic history of humanity, it acquired a strong impetus following the birth and consolidation of modern states. Even the history of the cartographic representation of Sardinia, which has always been a fundamental crossroads for the definition of navigation routes in the Mediterranean, is fully part of this larger cultural story.
The Cartographic Collection of the Regional Council Library makes it possible to outline the evolution of the cartographic image of Sardinia and offers a valuable testimony of the progressive refinement of the techniques for processing cartographic products, ever closer to the geographical reality they aspire to represent.
The collection, consisting of 176 geographical maps, born from the confluence of important private collections such as the Marcialis collection (acquired in 1956) and the Fanni collection (acquired in 1972), can now be consulted again in this section.
The descriptive sheets of the geographical maps, arranged chronologically by centuries in four sections, contain information on the reproduction technique, the author, the title, the edition, the year of publication, and are accompanied by a brief description.
La scienza cartografica nasce dalla necessità dell'uomo di possedere concettualmente, prima ancora che fisicamente, il territorio in cui si è trovato a vivere. Da sempre connessa alla storia politica ed economica dell'umanità, acquisisce un forte impulso in seguito alla nascita e al consolidamento degli stati moderni. Anche la storia della rappresentazione cartografica della Sardegna, da sempre fondamentale crocevia per la definizione delle rotte di navigazione nel Mediterraneo, si inserisce a pieno titolo in questa più ampia vicenda culturale.
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