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Amerique Septentrionale. (
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Amerique Septentrionale.
Title
Amerique
Septentrionale.
Author
Sanson
,
Nicolas
,
1600-1667
Coverage-Spatial
North
America
Subject
North
America;
Maps;
Early
works
to
1800
Type
Maps
Description
1
map
:
hand
col.;
Prime
meridian:
[Ferro].;
Relief
shown
pictorially.
Extent
39 x 55 cm.
Interpretation
This was the
first
published
map
to
show
of
all
five
Great
Lakes
in their
proper
geographical
relation
to
one
another.
Sanson
compiled
this
map
from a
variety
of
sources.
These
include
, for the
region
of the
Great
Lakes
,
geographical
knowledge
gained
by
French
Jesuit
missionaries
and
explorers
such
as
Jean
Nicolet
who
penetrated
into the
Green
Bay
region
circa
1634.
Sanson
is
considered
the
founder
of the
French
school
of
geography
of the
seventeenth
century.
References:
Heidenreich
,
Conrad
E.
1980.
"Mapping
the
Great
Lakes:
The
Period
of
Exploration
,
1603-1700."
Cartographica
17
,
no.
4:
32-64.
Heidenreich
,
Conrad
E.
and
Edward
H.
Dahl.
1980.
"The
French
Mapping
of
North
America
in the
Seventeenth
Century."
The
Map
Collector
no.
13:
2-11.
Kellogg
,
Louise
Phelps.
1925.
The
French
Régime
in
Wisconsin
and the
Northwest.
Madison:
State
Historical
Society
of
Wisconsin.
Date
1650
Contributors
Peyrounin
,
A.
Scale
ca. 1:21,000,000
Collection
Historical
Maps
Online
Repository/Holding Library
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana-Champaign-Champaign.
Map
&
Geography
Library
Publisher
chez L'auteur et chez Pierre Mariette (Paris)
Call Number
G3300
1650.S21
Rights
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/terms.html
Archival File Name
G33001650.tif
JPEG2000 URL
http://histmapimages.grainger.illinois.edu/jp2files/G33001650.jp2
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