Guillaume Brouscon was a Breton
cartographer of the
Dieppe school
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in the 16th century. He was from the port of
Le Conquet
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, near
Brest
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,
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/ref> which is shown prominently in large red lettering on his 1543 map of the world.
On his 1543 map of the world, the northern part of the promontory of the ''TERRE OSTRALE'' (Australe) is called ''terre de Lucac'' (the Land of Locach), and is separated from '' La Iave grande'' and '' Iave'' by the ''R. grande.'' That is, Brouscon, like Mercator __NOTOC__
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, identified Fine
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’s ''Regio Patalis
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'' not with Java Major but with Locach Lochac, Locach or Locat is a country far south of China mentioned by Marco Polo. The name is widely believed to be a variant of ''Lo-huk'' 罗斛: the Cantonese name for the southern Thai kingdom of Lopburi (also known as Lavapura and Louvo), which ...
.[ Robert J. King, “Finding Marco Polo’s Locach”, ''Terrae Incognitae,'' vol.50, no.1, April 2018, pp.1-18, p.8.]
He published his Brouscon's Almanac
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hs in 1546, which were used for their information on tides
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Tide tables can ...
by English, French and Breton sailors. They allowed to known the direction of tidal currents, and to calculate tide level depending on the phase of the moon
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.
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