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Sep 10 2010

1700 Map of Asia by Guillaume de L’isle

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1700 Map of Asia by Guillaume de L’isle

This wonderful map of Asia was included in Guillaume de L’isle’s World Atlas of 1700.  It incorporated many modern elements of cartography for the first time in a widely published work.  He became the first royal cartographer in 1718 and was an associate of the Academy of Science.  His maps were the most accurate available and were updated with the accounts of travelers.  He was the first cartographer to not depict California as an island.  He died in Paris in 1726.

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