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SANSON, NICOLAS (1600-1667)

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SANSON, See also:NICOLAS (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. 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. He gave lessons in geography both to See also:Louis XIII. and to Louis XIV.; and when Louis XIII., it is said, came to Abbeville, he preferred to be the See also:guest of Sanson (then employed on the fortifications), instead of occupying the lodgings provided by the See also:town. At the conclusion of this visit the See also:king made Sanson a councillor of See also:state. In 1647 Sanson accused the Jesuit Labbe of plagiarizing him in his Pharus Galliae Antiquae; in 1648 he lost his eldest son Nicolas, killed during the See also:Fronde. Among the See also:friends of his later years was the See also:great See also:Conde. He died at See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:July 1667. Two younger sons, Adrien (d. 1708) and See also:Guillaume (d. 1703), succeeded him as geographers to the king. Sanson's See also:principal See also:works are: Galliae antiquae descriptio geographica (1627); Graeciae antiquae descriptio (1636); L'See also:Empire romain (1637); Britannia, ou recherches de l'antiquile d'Abbeville (1638), in which he seeks to identify See also:Strabo's Britannia with Abbeville; La See also:France r(1644); Tables methodiques pour See also:les divisions See also:des Gaules . . .

(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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