Analysis of space shifting of geodetic center of China and the West,reveals that the China's geodetic center has been in coincidence with its political center. Furthermore the development of the maps in Europe was...Analysis of space shifting of geodetic center of China and the West,reveals that the China's geodetic center has been in coincidence with its political center. Furthermore the development of the maps in Europe was controlled by developmat of economy. Thereupon, maps in China and the West were developing in their own ways, and thus formed two different cartographic systems.Although China has a splendid cartogrphic history, it has not yet got many great breakthroughs. The reasons are as follows : 1. The theory of round earth has never occupied the ruling place, instead, the theory of flat earth took the dominant position. Thus the geodetic frameworks of China are not scientific. 2. Owing to the trammels of the theory that China is the whole earth, the Chinese geodetic workers have been limited in China's area. 3. Exchange between the East and the Weat is too late. The Chinese geodetic workers took a long time to accept the West geodetic technology. on the contrary, the West has absorbed the geodetic technology and results of China. 4. China's anciat gcodotic workers usually stopped after getting a little knowledge of a subject. They should have made great breakthroughs in geodetic area. Nevertheless, they failed.展开更多
文摘Analysis of space shifting of geodetic center of China and the West,reveals that the China's geodetic center has been in coincidence with its political center. Furthermore the development of the maps in Europe was controlled by developmat of economy. Thereupon, maps in China and the West were developing in their own ways, and thus formed two different cartographic systems.Although China has a splendid cartogrphic history, it has not yet got many great breakthroughs. The reasons are as follows : 1. The theory of round earth has never occupied the ruling place, instead, the theory of flat earth took the dominant position. Thus the geodetic frameworks of China are not scientific. 2. Owing to the trammels of the theory that China is the whole earth, the Chinese geodetic workers have been limited in China's area. 3. Exchange between the East and the Weat is too late. The Chinese geodetic workers took a long time to accept the West geodetic technology. on the contrary, the West has absorbed the geodetic technology and results of China. 4. China's anciat gcodotic workers usually stopped after getting a little knowledge of a subject. They should have made great breakthroughs in geodetic area. Nevertheless, they failed.
