Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle ( born February 28, 1675 Paris, † January 25, 1726 ibid ) was a French cartographer.

In 1702 he became a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, the title of royal geographer of Louis XIV, was designed for the job to teach his great-grandson ( later King Louis XV. ) In geography. Commissioned by Peter the Great, he delivered a large map of the Caspian Sea, whose true position and shape itself was made known. Delisle was the first to offing a scientifically comparative geography, by also travel reports and the works of naturalists used in his works. He published numerous maps, which are distinguished by elegance and sharpness of the earlier maps.

His father, Claude Delisle (1644-1720) was also a cartographer, historian and geographer. His brother Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) was a famous astronomer. His youngest brother Louis De l' Isle de la Croyère (1690-1741) was also an astronomer and the participants led by Vitus Bering Great Northern Expedition.

Honor

  • According to him, the 712 km ² large saltwater lake Lac Guillaume- Delisle was named in the Canadian province of Québec.
  • The writer Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote a eulogy for the Academy of Sciences of him.

Works

  • Insulae et regni siciliae novissima tabula / inventa par G. de lIsle, et edita par Joachim Ottens; J. Keyser sculptor. - Amsterdam:. Joachim Ottens, circa 1717 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Traité du cours des fleuves (par. 1720).
  • Africa: Concinnata Secundum Observationes Membror. Acad. Shelf. Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et iuxta recentissimas Annotationes. Augustae Vindelicorum, after 1756 ( digitized )
  • Gallia: Concinnata ad magnum numerum mapparum particularium manu scriptarum vel impreßarum iuxta genuinum Situm locorum et collatarum cum Itinerariis veteribus et recentioribus. Seutter, Augustae Vindelicorum between 1730 and 1760 ( digitized )
  • Nieuwe Kaart van Muscovy. Ratelband, Amsterdam 1732 ( digitized )
  • Game meridional de la Souabe. Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam 1740 ( digitized )
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