Guillaume Delisle
Guillaume Delisle (born February 28, 1675 in Paris , † January 25, 1726 in Paris), also known as Guillaume de l'Isle , was a French cartographer .
Life
In 1702 he became a member of the Paris Académie des Sciences , received the title of royal geographer and was commissioned by Louis XIV to teach his great-grandson (later King Louis XV ) in geography . On behalf of Peter the Great , he provided a large map of the Caspian Sea , whose true location and shape only became known through this. Delisle was the first to initiate a scientifically comparative geography by using travelogues and the works of naturalists in his works . He published numerous maps, which differed in elegance and sharpness from the earlier maps.
His father Claude Delisle (1644-1720) was also a cartographer, historian and geographer. His brother Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768) was a well-known astronomer . His youngest brother Louis De l'Isle de la Croyère (1690–1741) was also an astronomer and participant in the Great Nordic Expedition led by Vitus Bering .
Honors
- From 1723 he was a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
- The 712 km² large saltwater lake Lac Guillaume-Delisle in the Canadian province of Québec was named after him.
- The writer Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote an eulogy for the Académie des sciences about him.
- The asteroid (12742) Delisle was named after him and his brother Joseph-Nicolas .
Works
- Insulæ et regni Siciliæ novissima tabula / inventa par G. de lIsle, et edita par Joachim Ottens; J. Keyser sculptor. - Amsterdam: Ioachim Ottens, circa 1717. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Traité du cours des fleuves (Par. 1720).
- Partie meridionale de la Souabe. De L'Isle, Paris approx. 1740 ( digitized )
- Le Flambeau de la Guerre Allumee Au Rhin . Representee en 36 Nouvelles Cartes Geographiques, Dans lesqelles on voit le Rhin depuis Bon jusqu'au Basle & les autres Places aux environs. Schenk, Amsterdam, 1743 ( digitized version )
- Africa: Concinnata Secundum Observationes Membror. Acad. Shelf. Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et iuxta recentissimas annotationes . Augustae Vindelicorum, after 1756 ( digitized version )
- Gallia: Concinnata ad magnum numerum mapparum particularium manu scriptarum vel impreßarum iuxta genuinum situm locorum et collatarum cum Itinerariis veteribus et recentioribus . Seutter, Augustae Vindelicorum between 1730 a. 1760 ( digitized version )
- Nieuwe Kaart van Muskovien . Ratelband, Amsterdam 1732 ( digitized version )
- Partie meridionale de la Souabe . Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam approx. 1740 ( digitized )
Web links
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle on Guillaume Delisle in the Académie des sciences, 1726 ( PDF file , French; 660 kB)
- Culturegraph information on Guillaume Delisle
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Guillaume Delisle. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 13, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delisle, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1675 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1726 |
| Place of death | Paris |