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Andrew Eliason has noted that the islands ylhas de magna and ye de saill that appear off the east coast of Jave la Grande on the Harleian mappemonde of c.1546, and on other Dieppe Maps under similar names, appear as I. de Mague and I. de Sally on André Thevet's map, Quarte Partie du Monde (1575), where they represent two islands discovered by ...
Versailles on the Cassini map. The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family, mainly César-François Cassini (Cassini III) and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV) in the 1700s.
World map finished in 1550 by Desceliers Detail of the Map of Jave La Grande, 1550, by Desceliers. Pierre Desceliers (fl. 1537–1553) was a French cartographer of the Renaissance and an eminent member of the Dieppe School of Cartography.
It has been theorized that "continent" in the Mundus Novus meant the same as its modern meaning, that is, one of the Earth's main continuous land-masses, and that therefore it had first introduced to Europeans the idea that this was a new continent and not Asia, and that this led to Waldseemüller's separating the Americas from Asia, depicting ...
La Déliaison (roman), coécrit avec sa fille Ariane Fornia, Denoël, 2005. La Planète disneylandisée. Chroniques d'un tour du monde, Éditions Sciences humaines, 2006 ; nouvelle édition enrichie en 2012. À qui profite le développement durable, Larousse, 2008. Prix Luc Durand-Reville de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques [10]
Français : Carte du monde suivant une projection cylindrique équivalente de Gall-Peters aussi appelée Gall orthographique ou de Peters, avec indicatrices de déformation de Tissot. Chaque ellipse rouge a un rayon de 500 km.
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Delisle's 1718 Carte de la Louisiane. Delisle's 1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi is an example of French cartography at its height. It was widely circulated in Europe and remained in print for years, either copied exactly or used as a base map.