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Alexey V. Postnikov (born 1939) is an internationally known specialist on the History of Science, with particular emphasis on the geography and cartography of Russia and these countries that have been under Russian influence from the 17th through the 20th centuries. He analyzed the development of Earth Sciences and Cartography in a broad social-cultural context. It reveals the limitation of Eurocetric approach〔(Eurocentrism: it affects you, too ), The Observer. Retrieved 29 May 2014.〕 by including the rich traditions of old Asian and American countries and people, as well as historical processes of their interaction and mutual influences with European geographical practices and theories. His work ''Mapping of Russian America: A History of Russian–American Contacts in Cartography'' is the most representative examples of this. Besides that fundamental monograph, the article ''Learning from Each Other – a History of Russian-native contacts in late Eighteenth - early Nineteenth Century Exploration and Mapping of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands'' in the ''International Hydrographic Review'' may be mentioned in this connection, whiсh deals with Native Americans' geographical data's use by Russian in Alaska and Aleutian Island. In addition to their value as fundamental research on the development of cosmographical and geographical ideas and methods in different periods of the human history, Prof. Postnikov's studies in the History of Science, are important research tools for historical geographers who deal with detailed studies of territorial aspects of changes in nature and society. ==Biography== Born in Moscow in 1939 in the family of a diplomat (father Vladimir M. Konstantinov) and a military doctor (mother Maria A. Postnikova). He was graduated with a degree in geodesy from Moscow Institute of Engineers of Geodesy (the faculty of Air Surveying and Cartography) in 1965.〔(Alexey Vladimirovich Postnikov ), International Academy of the History of Science. Retrieved 29 May 2014.〕 From 1965 Alexey Postnikov was a research fellow aboard of the exploring ship "Bataysk", in 1967 he obtained the post of editor and author of historical Maps for the Soviet Atlas of World History and Atlas of the History of the USSR. From 1974 till 1977 he was a member of chief administration of geodesy and cartography of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR. His academic career in the Soviet Academy of Sciences was in 1972, when Alexei Postnikov was employed in the Institute of Russian History as a junior researcher. In 1980 Postnikov began his work in the Institute for the History of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov, first as researcher and finally as director. Nowadays Prof. Postnikov is working as chief researcher at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov Russian Academy of Sciences, a director of ''Imago Mundi'' International Journal on the History of Cartography, the expert at Harley Fellowships, co-editor of the collective monography ''The History of Cartography'', the director of Roerich's fund. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexey Postnikov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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