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Delisle L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 (1709) UTA
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Delisle L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 (1709) UTA

With cartouches by Charles Simonneau the Elder. Engraved by Berey. Guilaume Delisle was only twenty-five years old when he constructed this map, which was soon recognized as a landmark map. With this map (shown here in a later state which corrected an earlier westward bend in South America), Delisle was one of the first cartographers since 1625 to correctly show California again as a peninsula rather than as an island. By choice he left a big portion of northwestern North America blank since he had determined (correctly) that no reliable information was yet available for the area. Delisle, as a geographe de cabinet, was focused on the scientific accuracy of this map. Charles Simonneau's elegant baroque design for the decorative cartouche includes female figures symbolizing four continents.

Date
1700
Place
North America
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,922 × 2,130 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"Delisle L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 (1709) UTA" (1700). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delisle_L%27Amerique_Septentrionale_1700_(1709)_UTA.jpg

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