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(in French) History of cartography from antiquity to the present day (in French) OOo.HG OpenOffice history and geography: free plugin gratuit offering 1500 maps integrated to the Gallery and allowing modifications. (in French) IGN official site (in French) ENSG website, geomatics school in Ile de France (in French) Circé coordinates ...
This atlas was the first attempt to systematically codify nautical maps. This chart-book combined an atlas of nautical charts and sailing directions with instructions for navigation on the western and north-western coastal waters of Europe. It was the first of its kind in the history of maritime cartography. [115] [116] [117] [118]
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (France, c. 1600–1673), French cartographer who created first descriptive map of Ukraine [2] [3] François Berthelot (France), cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea; Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596–1673) Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker [4] Greenville Collins (British, 1643–1694)
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.
The French meridian arc was important for French cartography, since the triangulations of France began with the measurement of the French meridian arc. Moreover, the French meridian arc was important for geodesy as it was one of the meridian arcs which were measured to determine the figure of the Earth via the arc measurement method. [1]
Sources from the Dépôt de la Marine, the official French repository for maritime-related information, were used for their maps of Canada and South America. Like Ortelius and Mercator , the Vaugondy's credited their sources, which has greatly benefited the study of the history of cartography during that period.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (French pronunciation: [ʒak nikɔla bɛlɛ̃]; 1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London.
Volumes XIII and XIV: Two volumes of the French edition of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, covering France and Switzerland, both of 1663. Volumes XV and XVI: Blaeu's Toonneel der Steeden, city books covering both the Northern and the Southern Netherlands, of 1649; Volume XVII: Pieter Goos's Zee-atlas ofte water-wereld (Maritime Atlas or Water World) of 1676