Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville: Facts & Related Content

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Born July 11, 1697 • ParisFrance
Died January 28, 1782 (aged 84) • ParisFrance
Notable Works “Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Tibet”

Philippe Buache
French geographer and cartographer
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
David Thompson
English explorer
Rennell, detail from a pencil sketch by G. Dance, 1794; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Rennell
British geographer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Pedro Nunes
Portuguese geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Reclus, Élisée
Élisée Reclus
French geographer
Paul Vidal de La Blache
Paul Vidal de La Blache
French geographer
André Duchesne, detail from an engraving
André Duchesne
French historian
Jean Gottman
French geographer
Guillaume Delisle, engraving
Guillaume Delisle
French cartographer
Édouard Gaston Deville
French surveyor
Dominique, comte de Cassini
French surveyor and astronomer
Conrad Malte-Brun
Danish author
François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist