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Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723, Paris – 1786) was an 18th-century French geographer.
The son of Robert de Vaugondy, he was appointed geographer of the King by
''L’Europe : divisée en ses états, empires, royaumes et républiques''
Delamache, Paris 1767 * Collaboration to the ''
Fuseau (Geog.)
', (p. 385) ** Article
Géographie
', (p. 608–613) ** Article
Globe (Astronom. & Géogr.)
', (p. 707–711)
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723, Paris – 1786) was an 18th-century French geographer.
The son of Robert de Vaugondy, he was appointed geographer of the King by Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
, geographer of the Duke of Lorraine by Stanisław Leszczyński
Stanisław I Leszczyński (; lt, Stanislovas Leščinskis; french: Stanislas Leszczynski; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766), also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at v ...
, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine. In 1773, he became royal censor for works related to geography, navigation and travels.Edward Dahl, Jean-Francois Gauvin, ''Sphaerae Mundi…'', ouvrage cité en bibliographie, p. 174.
Works
''L’Europe : divisée en ses états, empires, royaumes et républiques''
Delamache, Paris 1767 * Collaboration to the ''
Encyclopédie
''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...
'', Vol 7: Foang – Gythium, Paris 1757.
** Article Fuseau (Geog.)
', (p. 385) ** Article
Géographie
', (p. 608–613) ** Article
Globe (Astronom. & Géogr.)
', (p. 707–711)
See also
*Sea of the West
The Sea of the West, or ''Mer de l'Ouest'', was a geographic misconception of an inland sea in the Pacific Northwest that appeared on many maps of the 18th century. The depiction was particularly common on French maps. The sea was supposed to be co ...
Bibliography
* Jean-François Gauvin: ''Traditionen des Globenbaus um 1750: die Valks, Didier Robert de Vaugondy und Åkerman im Vergleich'', in: der Globusfreund: wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde 51–52 (2003–2004), (ISSN 0436-0664), (p. 47–48) * Mary Sponberg Pedley: ''Bel et utile: the work of Robert de Vaugondy family of mapmakers'', Tring, Herts, England 1992, (). * ''Robert de Vaugondy, Didier'', in: Frank Arthur Kafker, The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford 1988, (, (p. 330–333). * Mary Sponberg Pedley: ''The Map Trade in Paris, 1650–1825'', in: Imago Mundi: the international journal for the history of cartography 33 (1981), (ISSN 1479-7801), (p. 33–45) * Edward Dahl, Jean-Francois Gauvin, ''Sphaerae Mundi: Early Globes at the Stewart Museum, Montreal'', Éditions du Septentrion et McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000, 280 p. ((. Voir « Globes by Didier Robert de Vaugondy », (p. 167 and fol.)References
Sources
*Ferdinand Hoefer
Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, Döschnitz – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science.
Selected works
*''Élément ...
, ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', vol.37, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1824, p. 23-4.
* Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume ''Grand dict ...
, ''Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe'', vol.13, Paris, Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, p. 663.
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18th-century geographers French geographers French cartographers Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) Scientists from Paris 1723 births 1786 deaths {{France-academic-bio-stub