Maps of the Earth’s poles
Date
1799
Creator
Blanchard (French) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 295mm
width (print): 452mm
width (print): 452mm
Subject
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Description
The Arctic and Antarctic regions of Earth, shown as two hemispheres. The routes of voyages by Abel Tasman (1642) Edmond Halley (1700), James Cook (1769, 1773 and 1774) and Tobias Furneaux (1774) are marked on the southern polar chart.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 4 (Paris 1799). The fold-out illustration appears between pages 144 and p145.
Inscribed above: ‘CARTE DES DEUX REGIONS POLAIRES Jusgu’au au 45 Degre de Latitude.’ Inscribed below: ‘Gravé par Blanchard.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 4 (Paris 1799). The fold-out illustration appears between pages 144 and p145.
Inscribed above: ‘CARTE DES DEUX REGIONS POLAIRES Jusgu’au au 45 Degre de Latitude.’ Inscribed below: ‘Gravé par Blanchard.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
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