It was taken up by his followers, the French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570.

The map is based on an earlier French map by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d ' Anville | d ' Anville, which in its turn makes use of the data collected by Jesuit missions in China | Jesuit cartographers in 1709.

French surveyors were likely the first cartographers for the area, although much of the details have been lost to history.

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In the later 17th and early 18th centuries, French cartographers mapped the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers.

The first sea chart that would prove this is dated 1551, signed by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and French cartographers, in which is shown an archipelago located at points close to the place Hawaii occupies on the globe.

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

Category: French cartographers

The town was named after Havre de Grâce ( now Le Havre ), France, although it is uncertain whether the name was given by French cartographers, Francis I of France, or early settlers from the British Channel Islands and West Country who were familiar with Le Havre as a common trade destination for fishermen from the Channel Islands.

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Category: French cartographers

French cartographers would use it as their prime meridian for more than 200 years.

To this day, French cartographers continue to indicate the Paris meridian on some maps.

In 1789, French nobleman and scientific researcher Antoine Lavoisier discovered the law of conservation of mass and defined an element as a basic substance that could not be further broken down by the methods of chemistry.

In 1806, the French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered.

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

A significant contribution to the chemistry of alkaloids in the early years of its development was made by the French researchers Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, who discovered quinine ( 1820 ) and strychnine ( 1818 ).

The French physicist Pierre Victor Auger also discovered it in 1923 upon analysis of a Wilson cloud chamber experiment and it became the central part of his PhD work.

When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.

Making rapid time on a direct route, Nelson reached Alexandria on 28 June and discovered that the French were not there.

His scouts, HMS Alexander and HMS Swiftsure, discovered the French transport fleet at Alexandria on the afternoon of 1 August.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Research Project Team composed of Eritrean, Canadian, American, Dutch and French scientists, discovered in 1999 a site with stone and obsidian tools dated to over 125 000 years old ( from the paleolithic ) era near the Bay of Zula south of Massawa along the Red Sea coast.

However, in 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

By the mid — 18th century the French chemist Charles François de Cisternay du Fay had discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repel each other whilst unlike charges attract.

He spent his younger years working at a pâtisserie until being discovered by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who would later cook for the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

A small detachment of French troops led by Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, was discovered by Tanacharison and a few warriors east of present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

During the French occupation of Algeria in the 1830s five manuscripts were discovered in Constantine, including two that contained more complete versions of the text.

* 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist, discovered HIV, Nobel Prize laureate

French archeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur discovered remains of the lighthouse in late 1994 on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.

Lutetium was independently discovered in 1907 by French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and American chemist Charles James.

Genetic studies discovered that much of what had been grown as Merlot was actually Carménère, an old French variety that had gone largely extinct in France due to its poor resistance to phylloxera.

The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist Jean-François Jarrige, and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000.

First discovered in 1972 by French physicist Francis Perrin, they are collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.

The ozone layer was discovered in 1913 by the French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson.