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C1763
Chart of the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries adjoining, According to the New Hypothesis of Mr. Buache.
Mapmaker:
Early Antarctic polar map, with Australia shown according to the ‘French theoretical school of cartography’, of which Buache was a leading exponent. Australia is shown with imaginary east coast to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and extending eastward dramatically to beyond … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Chart of the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries adjoining, According to the New Hypothesis of Mr. Buache.
Date:
C1763
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Small section of top right plate mark strengthened, otherwise in good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
220mm
x 195mm
Paper Size:
266mm
x 218mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1763
Description:
Early Antarctic polar map, with Australia shown according to the ‘French theoretical school of cartography’, of which Buache was a leading exponent. Australia is shown with imaginary east coast to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and extending eastward dramatically to beyond the Solomons. Buache also shows on this map his theory of submerged mountain chains that connected most countries.
References:
Tooley: Map T 273.
Collections:
National Library of Australia: Bib ID 1393835 /Rex Nan Kivell Collection” Map NK 10657.
Philippe Buache (1700 - 1773)
Buache was a French geographe and trained under the geographer Guillaume Delisle, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded in the Académie des sciences in 1730. Buache was nominated first geographer of the king in 1729. He established the division of the world by seas and river systems. He believed in a southern continent, an hypothesis which was confirmed by later discoveries. His nephew, Jean Nicolas Buache (born La Neuville-au-Pont, 15 February 1741; died Paris, 21 November 1825), was also a geographer of the king.
