Charles François Delamarche
Illustration — Usages de la sphère, et des globes celeste et terrestre, selon les hypothèses de Ptolèmée et de Copernic, 1794 Charles-François Delamarche (August 1740 – 31 October 1817) was a French geographer and mapmaker. • Illustration — «Carte générale de l'Asie divisée en ses principaux états», Delamarche, 1818 One of the most important French geographers and mapmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century. Successor to Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667), Robert de Vaugondy (1686–1766), and Rigobert Bonne (1727–1794), whose atlases he reprinted. Also taught geography.
Also recorded as Charles-Francois Delamarche · Charles François de LaMarche · Charles-François de La Marche · Charles Francois Lamarche
Charles François Delamarche
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- 1740
- Died
- 1817
- Nationality
- France
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- geographer · lawyer · editor · publisher · cartographer
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Usages de la sphère, et des globes celeste et terrestre, selon les hypothèses de Ptolèmée et de Copernic, 1794 Charles-François Delamarche (August 1740 – 31 October 1817) was a French geographer and mapmaker. • Illustration — «Carte générale de l'Asie divisée en ses principaux états», Delamarche, 1818 One of the most important French geographers and mapmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century. Successor to Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667), Robert de Vaugondy (1686–1766), and Rigobert Bonne (1727–1794), whose atlases he reprinted. Also taught geography.
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In addition to maps and globes, his works include a treatise on the use of the sphere and celestial and terrestrial globes. In the treatise, he illustrates both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, as well as listing all the ancient and modern constellations. His son Félix Delamarche (18th century – 1st half 19th century) continued his work.
The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Charles François Delamarche is recorded in the collections of Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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This map of Southeast Asia and South Asia is probably from Charles Francois Delamarche who bought the stock of Didier Robert de Vaugondy and Jean Lattre from Jean Fortin, and republished updated versions of Robert de Vaugondy's Nouvel atlas portatif and Petit atlas moderne.
Delamarche, Charles François, 1740-1817, publisher · NLB Singapore, David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection. Available on BookSG https: eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/58ae74ee-1159-4692-b8dc-015b4d9fd054.aspx
Decorative map of the Holy Land, illustrating the lands controlled by the 12 Tribes descended from the 12 sons of Jacob.
Charles François Delamarche · Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.
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