Chasing the line: Hutton's contribution to the invention of contours
Chasing the line: Hutton's contribution to the invention of contours
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追逐线条：赫顿对轮廓发明的贡献
DOI：
10.1080/17445647.2019.1582439
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发表时间：
2019
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2.2
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Rann K
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Rann K
本文从一个方面介绍了等高线的历史、发明和使用。我们提出一个例子，在格林尼治皇家天文台工作的查尔斯·赫顿（Charles Hutton）可能根据对苏格兰佩思郡斯希哈林（Schiehallion）的调查绘制了第一批精确而有用的等高线地图之一。赫顿对这张地图的描述和他的计算（用来确定地球的密度）在1778年由英国皇家学会出版。地图不见了；然而，本文提供了所有的信息，基于测量师的测量，以创建一个相当准确的等高线地图的Schiehallion。我们在数学家和艺术家之间的合作，基于赫顿论文和他的其他地图中的原始计算，对数据进行了视觉上的重新解释。在这篇文章中，我们记录了我们对斯谢哈林山地图的重建，以及随后相应的山的三维轮廓模型。
This article describes one aspect of the history, invention and use of contour lines. We present a case that Charles Hutton – working for the Greenwich Royal Observatory – might have created one of the first accurate and useful contour maps, based on a survey of Schiehallion in Perthshire, Scotland. Hutton’s description of this map and his calculations (used to determine the density of the Earth) were published by the Royal Society in 1778. The map is missing; however, this paper provides all the information, based on the surveyors’ measurements, to create a fairly accurate contour map of Schiehallion. Our collaboration, between mathematician and artist, led to a visual reinterpretation of the data based on the original calculations in Hutton’s paper, and his other maps. In this article, we document our re-creation of the map of Schiehallion and subsequent and corresponding three-dimensional contour models of the mountain.