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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan

Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 6 December 1673) or William le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan is best known for his 1648 General Map of Ukraine and other maps of Ukraine (which he spelt as Ukranie or Vkranie, with the "U" spelt as a "V"), and his 1660 book Description d'Ukranie ("Description of Ukraine"), first published in 1651 as Description des contrés du Royaume de Pologne ("Description of the Kingdom of Poland's Lands"), which was republished and translated many times in Western European languages throughout the rest of the 17th century and the entire 18th century.

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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan

Delineatio Specialis Et Accurata Ukrainae Cum Suis Palatinatibus Ac Districti[bus] Provincysq[ue] Adiacentibus Bono Publico Творець: Гійом Левассер де Боплан Гравюра Вільгельма Гондіуса Видавець: Вільгельм Гондіус (1597 – 1658) Місце видання: Гданськ (Річ Посполита)

Гійом Левассер де Боплан (1600 – 1675) · [1] · Public domain

Born
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was born, sources differ on the date (in 1595 and about 1600).
Died
1673.
Nationality
Kingdom of France and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Occupation
cartographer, military engineer, architect and engineer.
Known for
Pidhirtsi Castle.

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Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 6 December 1673) or William le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan is best known for his 1648 General Map of Ukraine and other maps of Ukraine (which he spelt as Ukranie or Vkranie, with the "U" spelt as a "V"), and his 1660 book Description d'Ukranie ("Description of Ukraine"), first published in 1651 as Description des contrés du Royaume de Pologne ("Description of the Kingdom of Poland's Lands"), which was republished and translated many times in Western European languages throughout the rest of the 17th century and the entire 18th century.

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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (died 1673) was an architect, cartographer and engineer, among other activities and a national of the Kingdom of France and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Born in Dieppe, the architect died in Rouen. Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was active in science.

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