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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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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Nicolas Sanson. Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651....
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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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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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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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Selius Marselis, Dutch/Norwegian tradesman (d. 1663) December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667) December – Marie de Rohan, French courtier...
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The "Island of California", on a 1650 map by Nicolas Sanson...
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Rus Nicolas Sanson Black Rus (Galicia) 1665 Tartarie Europeenne ou Petite Tartarie… European Tartaria, so-called A Little Tartary Nicolas Sanson Tartary...
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Cassipa and Lake Eupana Map from 1635 by Willem Blaeu Map from 1652 by Nicolas Sanson showing "Lac ou Mer de Parime" and the city of El Dorado on the western...
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Execution of Louis XVI (section Charles-Henri Sanson)
simple majority. The execution by guillotine was performed by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously royal...
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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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accuracy. If they were found not to be accurate, the Royal Geographer, Nicolas Sanson, was to edit them, basing his information on the reports prepared by...
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Map of the Duchy of Berg by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson in 1696....
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Pannonia Superior on a 17th-century map of Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer...
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Ogilby (Scotland, 1600–1676) Henry Popple [fr] (England, 16xx–1743) Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600–1667) Peter Schenk the Elder (Germany, 1660–1718/19) Johannes...
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Sebastian Münster in 1540 and again on the map titled Atlantis Insula by Nicolas Sanson and son (1669) which identified both North and South America as "Atlantis...
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identified with Tarantou, a village marked on a 1656 map of New France by Nicolas Sanson. However, the location on this map is east of Lake Nipissing and northwest...
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accuracy of a few degrees.[citation needed] One example is a map by Nicolas Sanson dated 1650. The Great Salt Lake entered written history through the...
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2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014. This was mentioned in a 1652 map by a French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, who is known as father of French cartography....
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St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively. In 1660, Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the...
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showing the territory of the Republic of Lucca. The map was designed by Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667) and published after his death by Covens & Mortier. Capital...
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appointed chaplain at Santa Maria Maggiore. In 1652, possibly motivated by Nicolas Sanson's new collection of maps, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation...
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a Holy Land specialist associated with the mapmaking enterprise of Nicolas Sanson, patriarch of French cartography. Hardly anything is known of La Ruë...
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Ortelius. Pierre Duval (1618–1683), a nephew of the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, wrote various geographical dictionaries. These include a dictionary...
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tartarico historia, and it soon appeared, e.g., on the 1660 world map by Nicolas Sanson. Jurchen (Jyrkin) is an anglicization of Jurčen, an attempted reconstruction...
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province shifted slightly through history. Some mapmakers, such as Nicolas Sanson (1650), Johannes Blaeu (1662), and Bernard Antoine Jaillot (1733), show...
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