Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
géographe de cabinet
English translation:
armchair geographer/cartographer
French term
géographe de cabinet
Difficulté à voyager au XVIIIe siècle, puisque les cartes générales sont souvent produites par un géographe dit « de cabinet »9, et qu’elles sont parfois utilisées par le public pour suppléer au voyage.
First, the difficulty of travelling in the 18th century, since general maps were often produced by a “de cabinet” geographer, and were sometimes used by the public as a substitution for travel.
4 | armchair geographer/cartographer | philgoddard |
3 | desktop geographer | B D Finch |
Dec 17, 2014 15:13: philgoddard changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Dec 26, 2014 20:34: philgoddard Created KOG entry
PRO (3): BrigitteHilgner, B D Finch, philgoddard
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Proposed translations
armchair geographer/cartographer
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B D Finch
: I was thinking along those lines: smoking jackets and slippers etc., but decided that implies they were dilettantes who just chatted about the subject, when they were probably quite serious and hard-working, just rather pre-scientific.
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desktop geographer
"Les géographes de cabinet dressent leurs cartes à partir de plusieurs sources humaines et matérielles, faute d’effectuer eux-mêmes des relevés sur le terrain."
I think it is probably OK/necessary to improvise here. This is about 17th and 18th century gentlemen who drew maps and wrote treatises in the comfort of their libraries without getting their boots muddy in the pursuit of any first-hand observations.
Discussion
'First, the difficulty of travelling in the 18th century, since general maps were often produced by people known as “office” cartographers (who produced maps without setting foot on the land themselves), and were sometimes used by the public as a substitution for travel.
https://books.google.de/books?id=75bpxYE_-coC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA...