Rigobert Bonne
Rigobert Bonne (* 1727 in Raucourt in the Ardennes , † 1795 in Paris ) was a French mathematician and cartographer . In addition to the maps he created, Bonne is best known today as the namesake for the fake cylindrical map projection , the Bonnesche projection .
life and work
Born in Raucourt in the Ardennes in 1727 , Bonne initially worked as an engineering geographer and mathematics teacher. In 1762 he published his first atlas with the Atlas maritime executed in Mercator projection . In 1771 he published a large number of maps in the publishing house of the engraver Jean Lattré in Paris, for which he strived for the highest cartographic accuracy and which were later summarized - together with the work of other French cartographers - in the so-called Atlas modern .
In 1773 Bonne was appointed as the successor to Jacques-Nicolas Bellins as engineer-hydrograph of the French Dépot de la Marine . In 1776 he was appointed chief engineer hydrograph of the French navy for his achievements in the field of sea cartography.
Bonnes Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre , published in Geneva in 1780, supplemented the Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissements et du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes des Abbé Raynal . Together with Nicolas Desmaret , Bonne published the Atlas de Geographie Ancienne in 1783 . At the request of the Geneva publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke , Bonne and Desmaret created the Atlas Encyclopédique in 1787 and 1788 as a supplement to the Encyclopédie méthodique , the revision of the famous Encyclopédie . In the foreword to the Atlas Encyclopédique , Bonne described the construction of the maps based on the Bonnean projection that was later named after him.
In 1789, Joseph Bernard de Chabert , chief inspector of the Dépot de la Marine , put Bonne into retirement against his will. Rigobert Bonne died in Paris six years later. In 1827, more than thirty years after Bone's death, the Atlas encyclopédique appeared in a new edition. In the 19th century, the Bonnesche projection was used in numerous maps ; towards the end of the 19th century it was finally replaced by projection processes with a lower angular distortion .
The map projection developed by Bonne is the namesake for the Bonne Glacier in Antarctica.
Works (selection)
- Atlas maritime ou carte réduite de toutes les côtes de France ( Folio edition 1762; new edition in octave format 1778)
- Petit Tableau de France (1764)
- Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre (1780)
- Atlas Portatif (around 1783)
- Atlas de Geographie Ancienne (1783, together with Nicolas Desmaret)
- Atlas Encyclopédique (1787–1788, together with Nicolas Desmaret; reprint 1827)
- Atlas modern ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs (1791)
literature
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- Archives nationales (Paris), Fonds Marine, C 7 36.
Representations
- M. Pelletier: Article Bonne, Rigobert , in: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Kartographie, Volume 1: A – L, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4562-2 , p. 101.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonne, Rigobert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Raucourt ( Ardennes ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1795 |
| Place of death | Paris |