prize7-6, Exercise 2: Two surveys compared

Model answer (check the details):

Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755):
- Patron: the British army and government, after the 1745 rising.
- Purpose: to know the Highlands well enough to move troops and control the region.
- Who gained: military planners first. The map was a manuscript and was not published at the time.

Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (from 1802):
- Patron: the East India Company, then the colonial government.
- Purpose: administration, taxation, military planning and scientific measurement of the shape of the Earth and the mountains.
- Who gained: the colonial state; science gained too; Indian surveyors did much of the work and received little credit.

Common thread: both were state projects with military and administrative aims and with real scientific value. Neither can be described as only a neutral measurement.

How to write about them: name the patron, the purpose, who did the work, and who used the results.