COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
88-94
File Name:
88-94-1
Call number:
Z B917 1770 / 3-SIZE
Map title:
Carte Physique de la Grande Mer ci-devant nommée Mer du Sud ou Pacifique ...
Place of Publication:
[Paris]
Publication date:
1757
Map size height:
31.2 cm.
Map size width:
43.7 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of the Pacific Ocean showing the geological features of the ocean floor, as well as the land. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude.
Source author:
Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773
Source title:
Cartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle, ...
Source place:
se trouve à Paris, : sur le Quay de l'Horloge; avec les cartes de Guill: Delisle et de Phil. Buache, [1770]
Cartobibliographic notes:
Presented to the Academy of Sciences 5 September, 1744.Published under the privilege of the Academy 4 September, 1754.Image placed horizontally on page.
References:
Wagner, H.R. Cartography of the Northwest coast of America, 550; Kish, G. "Early thematic mapping: the work of Philippe Buache," Imago mundi XXVIII: 129-136; Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, 99, 88
Geographic Area:
Western hemisphere
Historical notes:
This atlas includes 6 maps which are examples of one of the earliest attempts at thematic mapping in the field of geology. This map illustrates Buache's theory that geological features of land masses, particularly mountain ranges, continue under the surface of the oceans and thus interconnect the continents. Buache is also known for having hypothesized, before the Alaskan peninsula and the Aleutian islands were discovered, that a geographical connection existed between Asia and America.
Normalized date:
1757
Creator:
Desbruslins Pere
Carte Physique de la Grande Mer ci-devant nommée Mer du Sud ou Pacifique ...
