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A world map by Guillaume Brouscon, an example of a Dieppe map, 1543. The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe , France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England .
Cartographic historian Robert J. King has also written extensively on the subject, arguing that Jave la Grande on the Dieppe maps reflects 16th-century cosmography. In 2010, King received the Australasian Hydrographic Society's Literary Achievement Award for 2010 in recognition of his work on the origins of the Dieppe Maps. [107]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... The Vallard Atlas is a world atlas, one of the Dieppe school of maps, produced in 1547. It is ...
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Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England. Famous for its scallops, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The mouth of the river Scie lies at Hautot-sur-Mer, directly to the west of ...
The primary evidence advanced to support this theory is the representation of the continent of Jave la Grande, which appears on a series of French world maps, the Dieppe maps, and that may, in part, be based on Portuguese charts. However, most historians do not accept this theory, and the interpretation of the Dieppe maps is highly contentious.
Cartographer of the Dieppe maps and world atlas in 1555; alleged to have been the first European to map Australia. Guillaume Le Testu , sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509-12 – April 29, 1573), was a French privateer , explorer and navigator.
A world map by Guillaume Brouscon, an example of a Dieppe map, 1543. Brouscon's Almanach of 1546: Compass bearing of high waters in the Bay of Biscay (left) and the coast from Brittany to Dover (right). Brouscon's Almanach of 1546: Tidal diagrams "according to the age of the Moon".