Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean -Baptiste ( born July 11, 1697 in Paris, † January 28, 1782 ibid ) was a French geographer and the reformer of old and new cartography. He worked on the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d' Alembert as encyclopedist.

Life

Bourguignon d' Anville was devoted to geographical studies early, so he was already in the royal geographer age of 22, at which point he later joined the one private secretary of Louis, Duke of Orléans.

He gave out 211 cards. Among the most important works include:

• The large map of China, which he ( along with numerous individual papers ) and you dump was published in his book Description de la Chine et de la chinoise 1735 Tartarie 1734 created the basis of the preparatory work of the Jesuit missionaries to Jean -Baptiste Régis Jean -Baptiste;
• Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la chinoise Tartarie, et du Thibet (1737, 107 leaves),
• Atlas général ( 1737-80, 66 leaves) and the
• Atlas antiquus major ( 12 sheets ), to which the
• Géographie ancienne abrégée (1769, 3 vols ) belongs as text.

A copy engraving of the latter cards appeared in Nuremberg as a manual of ancient geography, the use of the eleven major Danvillischen maps. 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1796-1800.

He was elected in 1773 as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and in the same year as member ( Adjoint géographe ) of the Académie des sciences.

His valuable collection of maps ( from 10,500 numbers consisting ) was purchased for the Royal Library Paris (now the Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

1976 Anville lunar crater named after him.