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Summary

Title

Français : Amerique Septentrionale

Description

English: Sanson's landmark 1650 map of North America includes interesting details relating to chartered company operations in the northern and eastern part of the continent as well as the Caribbean. Employing a sinusoidal projection, its construction demonstrates considerable scientific acumen. Much of the Great Lakes system now appears, with Lakes Superior and Ontario named for the first time. Sanson's sources must have included the annual reports of the Jesuits which included eyewitness accounts of their missionary activities and explorations in association with the chartered fur companies. These augmented the earlier explorations of Champlain. There is also "Mon Royal", or Montreal, laid out as a trading site by Champlain in 1611. "N[ouvelle]. Anglet[erre]" refers to New England, while "Nouvelle Amsterdam" and "Nouvelle Hollandia" on the east coast allude to activities there of the New Netherland Company (beginning in 1614) and the Dutch WIC (beginning in 1625). There is even "N[ouvelle]. Suede" relating to the new settlements in the Delaware Valley of the New Sweden Company chartered by the Swedish government in 1638.

Date

1650 or 1651

Source

UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text

Creator



Alternative names	Nicolas Sanson, der Ältere; Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville
Description	French cartographer, scientific illustrator and historian
Date of birth/death	20 December 1600	7 July 1667
Location of birth/death	Abbeville, France	Paris
Work location	Paris; Indonesia
Authority file	: Q502162 VIAF: 66550637 ISNI: 0000000120963128 LCCN: n50023551 NLA: 35908957 Open Library: OL1474016A WorldCat

Credit line

English: UTA Libraries Special Collections

Geotemporal data

Map location

North America

Georeferencing

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Place of publication

Paris

Archival data

Collection

University of Texas at Arlington

	Native name	University of Texas at Arlington
	Parent institution	University of Texas System
	Location	Arlington, Texas, United States
	Coordinates	32° 43′ 50.4″ N, 97° 06′ 52.5″ W
	Established	1895
	Website	www.uta.edu
	Authority file	: Q1230739 VIAF: 149305872 ISNI: 0000000121819515 LCCN: n82072852 SUDOC: 028935020 BNF: 12066758c WorldCat

Dimensions

height: 38 cm (14.9 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in)

Medium

colored engraving

artwork-references

Burden The Mapping of North America I, no. 294 , pp. 375−377

Schwartz and Ralph Ehrenberg The Mapping of America, 5, no. 61 , pp. 111−112

Hayes Historical Atlas of Canada, 1, p. 60

Martin and Martin Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1, pp. 82−83

Licensing

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