Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father...
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Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during...
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Académie française Morgan Sanson (born 1994), French footballer Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667), French cartographer Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1940), inventor...
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Nicolas Sanson. Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651....
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Sinusoidal projection (redirect from Sanson-Flamsteed projection)
is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin of Dieppe was...
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Meanwhile, the public executioner Charles Henri Sanson tested the machine on corpses in the Bicêtre Hospital. Sanson preferred the guillotine over the former...
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earliest such maps, dated 1654, was produced by the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson. The southwestern corner of the peninsula experienced more rainfall...
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partly from the Arab of Nubia, partly from several other authors". By Nicolas Sanson, 1654. Deserta is the small green one in the north. The big yellow one...
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was born in Abbeville. He was the nephew and pupil of the geographer Nicolas Sanson. Encouraged by Louis XIV to move to Paris, he later became Geographe...
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Douce, "the fresh-water sea". In 1656, a map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson refers to the lake by the name Karegnondi, a Wyandot word that has been...
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