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A 1650 map of Sanson's showing North America (with California depicted as an island)
Temeswar, now Timișoara in Romania, view by Sanson of 1656
Sanson's map of West Africa, 1655

Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father of French cartography."[1]

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Nicolas Sanson

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Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father...

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Sanson

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Académie française Morgan Sanson (born 1994), French footballer Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667), French cartographer Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1940), inventor...

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Eastern Mediterranean

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Nicolas Sanson. Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651....

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Sinusoidal projection

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is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin of Dieppe was...

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Arabia Felix

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earliest such maps, dated 1654, was produced by the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson. The southwestern corner of the peninsula experienced more rainfall...

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Lake Huron

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Douce, "the fresh-water sea". In 1656, a map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson refers to the lake by the name Karegnondi, a Wyandot word that has been...

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Crete

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Nicolas Sanson. Crete in 1651...

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Nicolas Jacques Pelletier

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Meanwhile, the public executioner Charles Henri Sanson tested the machine on corpses in the Bicêtre Hospital. Sanson preferred the guillotine over the former...

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Arabia Deserta

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partly from the Arab of Nubia, partly from several other authors". By Nicolas Sanson, 1654. Deserta is the small green one in the north. The big yellow one...

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1600

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Selius Marselis, Dutch/Norwegian tradesman (d. 1663) December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667) December – Marie de Rohan, French courtier...

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Lake Parime

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Cassipa and Lake Eupana Map from 1635 by Willem Blaeu Map from 1652 by Nicolas Sanson showing "Lac ou Mer de Parime" and the city of El Dorado on the western...

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Island of California

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The "Island of California", on a 1650 map by Nicolas Sanson...

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History of cartography

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accuracy. If they were found not to be accurate, the Royal Geographer, Nicolas Sanson, was to edit them, basing his information on the reports prepared by...

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Duchy of Berg

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Map of the Duchy of Berg by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson in 1696....

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List of cartographers

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Ogilby (Scotland, 1600–1676) Henry Popple [fr] (England, 16xx–1743) Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600–1667) Peter Schenk the Elder (Germany, 1660–1718/19) Johannes...

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Pannonia Superior

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Pannonia Superior on a 17th-century map of Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer...

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Location hypotheses of Atlantis

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Sebastian Münster in 1540 and again on the map titled Atlantis Insula by Nicolas Sanson and son (1669) which identified both North and South America as "Atlantis...

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Republic of Lucca

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showing the territory of the Republic of Lucca. The map was designed by Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667) and published after his death by Covens & Mortier. Capital...

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Cartography of Ukraine

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Rus Nicolas Sanson Black Rus (Galicia) 1665 Tartarie Europeenne ou Petite Tartarie… European Tartaria, so-called A Little Tartary Nicolas Sanson Tartary...

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Injaram

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2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014. This was mentioned in a 1652 map by a French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, who is known as father of French cartography....

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Great Salt Lake

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accuracy of a few degrees.[citation needed] One example is a map by Nicolas Sanson dated 1650. The Great Salt Lake entered written history through the...

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Name of Toronto

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identified with Tarantou, a village marked on a 1656 map of New France by Nicolas Sanson. However, the location on this map is east of Lake Nipissing and northwest...

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Giovan Battista Nicolosi

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appointed chaplain at Santa Maria Maggiore. In 1652, possibly motivated by Nicolas Sanson's new collection of maps, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation...

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Jurchen people

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tartarico historia, and it soon appeared, e.g., on the 1660 world map by Nicolas Sanson. Jurchen (Jyrkin) is an anglicization of Jurčen, an attempted reconstruction...

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Lake Ontario

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St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively (likely for Louis XIV of France) In 1660, Jesuit historian...

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Execution of Louis XVI

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simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously royal...

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Guillaume Delisle

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France, and collaborated with Nicolas Sanson, a well-known cartographer. Guillaume and two of his half-brothers, Joseph Nicolas and Louis, ended up pursuing...

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