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See also:NICOLAS See also:SANSON (1600-1667)
, See also:French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French See also:geography, was See also:born of an old See also:Picardy See also:family of Scottish descent, at See also:Abbeville, on the 20th (Or 31st) of See also:December 1600, and was educated by the See also:Jesuits at See also:Amiens
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In 1627 he attracted the See also:attention of Riche-lieu by a See also:map of See also:Gaul which he had constructed (or at least begun) while only eighteen
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He gave lessons in geography both to See also: (1644); L'Angleterre, l'Espagne, l'Italie et l'Allemagne (1644); Le Colas du Rhin (1646); In Pharum Galliae antiquae See also:Philippi Labbe disquisitiones (1647—1648); Remarques sur la See also:carte de 1' ancienne Gaule de Cesar (1651); L'Asie (1652); See also:Index geographicus (1653); Geographia sacra (1653); L'Afrique (1656) . In 1692 See also:Hubert Jaillot collected Sanson's maps in an See also:Atlas nouveau . See also Niceron, ' The Aryabhaflya, edited by H . See also:Kern (1874) . 2 The Brihat-samhitei and Yogayatra, edited and translated by H . Kern; the Laghu-See also:jataka, edited by A . See also:Weber and H . See also:Jacobi . ' A See also:translation of both See also:treatises, as well as of the respective chapters of Brahma-See also:gupta's See also:work, was published (1817) by H . T . See also:Colebrooke, with an important " Dissertation on the See also:Algebra of the See also:Hindus," reprinted in the Misc . Essays, ii. pp . 375 seq . Memoires, vols. xiii. and xx.; the 18th-See also:century See also:editions of some of Sanson's works on Delamarche under the titles of Atlas de geographie ancienne and Atlas britannique; and the See also:Catalogue des cartes et livres de geographie de Sanson (1702) . |
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