Jean Godin
Jean Godin des Odonais (Odonais was his mother's maiden name) (born July 5, 1713 in Saint-Amand-Montrond , † March 1, 1792 ibid) was a French naturalist and cartographer .
Life
From 1735 he took part in the expedition of the French Academy of Sciences to the viceroyalty of Peru to measure the figure of the earth. He married Isabel Gramesón in Quito in 1741 and left Riobamba (now Ecuador ) in 1749 to return to France via French Guiana . Isabel followed him many years later and met him again after more than twenty years after an adventurous journey through the Amazon region. Together they traveled to France, where they spent their twilight years.
On April 9, 2009 the asteroid (13115) Jeangodin was named after him.
literature
- Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger: Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 0-275-98895-3
- Robert Whitaker: The cartographer's wife and the mystery of the shape of the earth . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89667-235-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Godin, Jean . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 669 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godin, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Godin des Odonais, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naturalist and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Amand-Montrond |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1792 |
| Place of death | Saint-Amand-Montrond |