Philippe Buache (born La Neuville-au-Pont, 7 February 1700; died Paris, 24 January 1773) was a French geographer, known for inventing a new system of...
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Two Hummock Island (redirect from Buache Peak)
ice-free west-northwest slopes. Named after the French cartographer Philippe Buache (1700-1773) who published maps of the south polar region in 1739 and...
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the Piri Reis Map: by Diego Cuoghi. On the Piri Reis, Oronteus, and Philippe Buache maps; comparison to other 16th-century maps of America and Asia, debunking...
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This 1753 map by the French cartographer Philippe Buache locates Fusang ("Fou-sang des Chinois", 'Fusang of the Chinese') north of California, in the...
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lines of equal depth (isobaths) at intervals of 1 fathom in 1727, and Philippe Buache used them at 10-fathom intervals on a chart of the English Channel...
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of surficial rock types was published by Jean-Étienne Guettard and Philippe Buache in 1746, showing matching formations crossing the English Channel in...
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mapmakers until 1750. In that year, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle commissioned Philippe Buache to draft a map with a radical new portrayal of Mer de l'Ouest (literally...
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1735 – No record 1736 – Noël Hallé 1737 – Fournier 1738 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo 1739 – Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain 1740 – No record 1741 – Charles-Michel-Ange...
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University of Florida, Gainesville, 2009; p. 70. Guillaume De L'Isle and Philippe Buache: Carte D'Amerique Dressee pour l'usage du Roy en 1722...Et augmentee...
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to have come. On Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's map (1688) and Philippe Buache's map (1754), it is called the Rivière du Fond du Lac, and the map by...
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