Nicolas Sanson
Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French
Life and work
He was born of an old Picard family of Scottish descent, at Abbeville, on 20 (or 31) December 1600, and was educated by the Jesuits at Amiens.
In 1627 he attracted the attention of
Active from 1627, Sanson issued his first map of importance, the "Postes de France", which was published by Melchior Tavernier in 1632. After publishing several general atlases himself he became the associate of Pierre Mariette, a publisher of prints.
In 1647 Sanson accused the Jesuit
In 1692
Sanson's maps were used as a model by his son, Guillaume, and, at least initially, by Duval, his nephew, in his 1664 folio map and 1660 atlas minor map. Outside of France, Sanson influenced the Italian mapmakers Nicolosi, Giacomo De Rossi (1677), and Paolo Petrini. In England, Blome (1669) used his map. Sanson continued to influence later mapmakers to 1700 through his association with Jaillot and, to a lesser degree, Duval.[2]
Principal works
Sanson's principal works are:
- Galilee antiquae descriptio geographica (1627);
- Graeciae antiquae descriptio (1636);
- L'Empire romain (1637);
- Britannia, ou recherches de l'antiquité d'Abbeville (1638), in which he seeks to identify Strabo's Britannia with Abbeville;
- La France (1644);
- Tables méthodiques pour les divisions des Gaules (1644);
- L'Angleterre, l'Espagne, l'Italie et l'Allemagne (1644);
- Le Cours du Rhin (1646);
- In Pharum Galliae antiquae Philippi L'Abbe disquisitiones (1647–1648);
- Remarques sur la carte de l'ancienne Gaule de César (1651);
- L'Asie (1652);
- Index geographicus (1653);
- Les Estats de la Couronne d'Arragon en Espagne (1653);
- Geographia sacra (1653);
- L'Afrique (1656)
- Sanson, Nicolas (1656), Le Canada ou Nouvelle France, &c., Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, OCLC 32881783
- Sanson, Nicolas (1658), Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, Paris: P. Mariette, OCLC 11510414
- Tables geographiques des divisions du globe terrestre (1677). Paris: H. Jalliot. 26 p.
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b "Guiana and Caribana". World Digital Library. 1700–1799. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
- ISBN 9789061944898.
Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sanson, Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 183. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the