Map of the English Channel, 1693. 'Carte de la Manche'. During the reign of Louis XIV, the French initiated a state-sponsored programme to map France and its coastal waters, and by the 1690s they possessed the most accurate charts in Europe. They were tied to precise topographical surveys, were astronomically fixed, and showed an unorecedented amount of hydrographic data. The first great collection of French charts, "Le Neptune Francois", was published in Paris in 1693 under royal privilege by Charles Pene, but it was immediately pirated by the Amsterdam publisher Pieter Mortier, as seen here.
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Map of the English Channel, 1693. 'Carte de la Manche'. During the reign of Louis XIV, the French initiated a state-sponsored programme to map France and its coastal waters, and by the 1690s they possessed the most accurate charts in Europe. They were tied to precise topographical surveys, were astronomically fixed, and showed an unorecedented amount of hydrographic data. The first great collection of French charts, "Le Neptune Francois", was published in Paris in 1693 under royal privilege by Charles Pene, but it was immediately pirated by the Amsterdam publisher Pieter Mortier, as seen here.

Date

1693

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A15_430

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NA

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,0Mo) / 41,2cm x 30,4cm / 4863 x 3593 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe sea coast England library coastal country French France coastline chart geography Netherlands Dutch color county province location century cartography navigation channel Jersey Channel Islands provincial British Library 17th century English Channel Colour seventeenth century geographical feature map-making TGN map Mapmaking Pieter Mortier Pierre Mortier Mortier Pieter Mortier Pierre Heritage Art Low Countries Charles Pene Pene Charles

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