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		Guillaume Delisle (February 28, 1675 - January 25, 1726) was a French cartographer, born in Paris, France (he also died there).
		His father, Claude Delisle (1644-1720) studied law and then later settled in Paris as private teacher in geography and history, and afterwards filled the office of royal censor.
		Guillaume Delisle's first works were "The Map of the World" and "The Map of the Continents", both published in 1700.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Guillaume_Delisle.html (343 words)

	Joseph-Nicolas Delisle - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle (1644–1720), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was born in Paris on April 4, 1688.
		As with many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), he initially followed classical studies.
		Delisle, mostly known for a temperature scale invented in 1732, died in Paris on 1768.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Joseph-Nicolas_Delisle (190 words)

	Guillaume Delisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guillaume Delisle (February 28, 1675 - January 25, 1726)was a French cartographer, born in Paris, France (he also died there).
		His father, Claude Delisle (1644-1720) studied law and then later settled in Paris as private teacher in geography and history, and afterwards filled theoffice of royal censor.
		In 1702 hebecame élève, in 1716 adjoint, and in 1718 associé of the Académie des Sciences ; and, as the young king's instructor in geography, received the title ofFirst Royal Geographer with a fixed salary, an office which was then created for the first time.
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	Guillaume Delisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father Claude Delisle (1644-1720) studied law then later settled in Paris as private in geography and history and afterwards filled office of royal censor.
		Guillaume Delisle's first works were "The Map the World" and "The Map of the both published in 1700.
		Guillaume Delisle adopted entirely new principles in and set about making a thorough reform that subject.
	www.freeglossary.com /Guillaume_Delisle (695 words)

	Antique Maps of 18th Century North America
		Guillaume Delisle is known as the "father of scientific cartography" for his production of maps based upon scientific principles and his role in establishing this as the standard for all cartographers.
		Delisle's maps had an immense impact on the history of cartography and this map is a prime example, what R.V. Tooley called a "foundation map." This map, for the first time, presents the American continent strictly based on accurate scientific observations.
		Delisle was a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who was at the forefront of basing geographic and cartographic science upon astronomical observations.
	www.philaprintshop.com /amer18.html (3019 words)

	Joseph Nicholas Delisle (1688-1768) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Nicholas Delisle was born in Paris on April 4, 1688 as one of 12 children of Claude Delisle, a teacher of history and geography.
		His oldest brother, Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), became professor of geography and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
		Louis de la Croyere Delisle travelled even further to Eastern Sibiria, where he eventually died on sea off the coast of the Kamtchatka peninsula in 1741, and was buried near Avacha, next to Lt. Charles Clerke, on the Kamchatka peninsula.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/delisle.html (398 words)

	Delisle, Guillaume - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Delisle, Guillaume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before Delisle some maps still reflected those of Ptolemy.
		In 1700 his map of the world appeared, as did his celestial and terrestrial globes.
		In 1702 Delisle became a member of the French Académie des Sciences, and in 1718 geographer to King Louis XV.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Delisle,%20Guillaume (165 words)

	Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Delisle's work begins another new era--this map is considered a "towering landmark for Western cartography" and rightfully so.
		Delisle most certainly had access to one of Kino's manuscript maps, for that part of the map uses Kino cartography and placenames.
		Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726) was the leading French cartographer in the early eighteenth century.
	parentseyes.arizona.edu /pimeriamaps/1703delisle.html (212 words)

	AllRefer.com - Guillaume Delisle (Geography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Guillaume Delisle[gEyOm´ dulEl´] Pronunciation Key, 1675–1726, French geographer and cartographer.
		His most important work is a world map (1700), as accurate as the data available at that time permitted and the first map on which the errors of Ptolemy were wholly absent.
		Delisle is called the founder of modern cartography.
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	DeLisle
		DeLisle is known for having more men serve in WW I, than any other community in the U.S. on a per capita basis.
		At DeLisle, where the Wolf River empties into the bay, during the 1840s to 1861, there was a significant lumber center with a proliferation of lumber mills headed by such people as John Huddleston, W.J. White, Thomas Gray, G.L. Thomas, Leonard Stables, and others.
		The earliest verifiable records for the DeLisle area show that Barthelome Grelot was followed by his brother-in-law Philipe Saucier in the mid-1780s.
	delisle.passchristian.net (1233 words)

	Guillaume Brune -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The U.S. actor and singer Robert Guillaume was born Robert Williams on Nov. 30, 1927, in St. Louis, Mo. He changed his last name to reflect his French-Indian background.
		Guillaume Farel was born in Gap, France, in 1489.
		Legally known as the Count of France, a title bought by his originally bourgeois family, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay was a French dandy and wit as well as a skillful amateur painter and sculptor.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016771 (473 words)

	Afrique Francoise ou du Senegal. / Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 ; Delisle, Marie Angelique, d. 1745 / 1727
		Pub Note: DeLisle is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps.
		Lloyd Brown states that DeLisle "undertook a complete reform of a system of geography that had been in force since the second century, and by the time he was twenty five he had very nearly accomplished his purpose." This copy is without title page, as issued.
		This is a relatively early edition of DeLisle's untitled atlas, published in Paris, with most of the maps having the "Quai de l'Horloge" imprint.
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	Louisiana Secretary of State/ARCHIVES-FRENCH COLONIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This map by Frenchman Guillaume Delisle, a copy reproduced by the Department of Commerce and Industry, dates from 1718, and is a French map of Louisiana, which at that time consisted of the entire Mississippi River Valley and its tributaries.
		Delisle was educated by his father, Claude (1644-1720) who was also a cartographer, and in 1696 drew up a map in manuscript and also took part in his son's first works, "The Map of the World" and "The Map of the Continents", both published in 1700.
		Delisle was named Premier Geographe du Roi, the first in France to be granted such a title.
	www.sec.state.la.us /archives/02-99/frcolon.HTM (276 words)

	William R. Talbot :: Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the three great maps of regional North America conceived by Delisle during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the present map identifies the colonial affiliations that defined the destiny of North America by the end of the century.
		This 1708 edition, the second, was issued by Delisle himself, with only very slight changes to the map and a change of address to Quai de Horloge in the cartouche.
		After 1708, Delisle probably sold the rights for a new engraving, and the map was reissued from a new plate in 1722.
	www.williamtalbot.com /newacq/newacq/maps/mpw_del_mex.html (436 words)

	Pelletier: The working-method of the new cartographers: The Gulf of Mexico and Spanish sources, 1696-1718
		The Spanish chart signed by Bisente was thus used by Guillaume Delisle for delineating the coasts of Nouveau Mexique and of Nouvelle Espagne towards 1703.
		New Galicia on the manuscript map compiled by Claude and Guillaume Delisle using the Description des Indes occidentales of Antonio de Herrera (1601 - 1605) (Archives Nationales, Paris).
		This was the context for Guillaume Delisle’s 1718
	www.sochistdisc.org /2002_articles/pelletier.htm (4117 words)

	Guillaume Delisle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guillaume Delisle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Guillaume Delisle (February 28, 1675 - January 25, 1726) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A person who makes maps) cartographer, born in (Click link for more info and facts about Paris, France) Paris, France (he also died there).
		No less famous than his astronomical corrections are the completeness of his (Precise detailed study of the surface features of a region) topography and the care displayed in the (A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols) orthography of the names.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guillaume_delisle.htm (293 words)

	Features - Commonwealth Club
		French cartographer Guillaume Delisle's maps were collected by Dutch publishers Jan Covens and Cornelis Mortier into an Atlas Nouveau, or New Atlas.
		Delisle attempted to establish cartography as an exact science and he subjected his source maps to critical examination, measuring them against information gathered by scientists.
		The rise of cartography as a precise science coincided with a decline in decoration.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /features/maps/maps2.html (278 words)

	Antique Maps of regions of 18th Century North America
		This map is a important example of Delisle's work, seminal in the history of the mapping of America exactly because of his pioneering method and attitude.
		Delisle was particularly well placed with respect to gathering information on North America, for with his connections in the French court, especially within the Ministry of Marine, he had access to all the official and unofficial reports coming out of New France.
		In 1752 Delisle, together with his brother-in-law, Philippe Buache, drew a map based on de Fonte's alleged discoveries, which they conflated with a non-existent gulf drawn earlier by Guillaume Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas' brother, to create a bizarre series of lakes and rivers in the American northwest.
	www.philaprintshop.com /amer18rg.html (1984 words)

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		This map is the first map to correctly place the west coast of North America by moving it east substantially from previous mapping.
		California is correctly shown as a peninsula (at a time when it was often still shown as an island - even in other maps drawn by Delisle).
		Delisle based his depiction of the Northern Pacific on the voyage of Fondant in 1709.
	www.oldworldauctions.com /auction103/detail.asp?lotNo=43 (124 words)

	Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
		Delisle is chiefly remembered as the author of a method for observing the transits of Venus and Mercury by instants of contacts.
		First proposed by him in a letter to J. Cassini in 1743, it was afterwards perfected, and has been extensively employed.
		As a preliminary to the transit of Mercury in 1743, which he personally observed, he issued a map of the world showing the varied circumstances of its occurrence.
	www.nndb.com /people/416/000097125 (236 words)

	IMSS - Multimedia Catalogue - Biographies - Guillaume Delisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Son of Claude Delisle (1644-1720), historian and geographer to the King of France, Guillaume drew his first maps at a very early age.
		In his mapmaking, Delisle not only corrected errors handed down from his predecessors, but also eliminated the imaginary lands that filled still-unexplored regions in earlier maps and globes.
		Delisle was one of the most important reformers in French cartography.
	brunelleschi.imss.fi.it /genscheda.asp?appl=SIM&xsl=biografia&lingua=ENG&chiave=300179 (162 words)

	Windows on the World... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This map was issued in Paris by Delisle and proved to be perhaps his most influential.
		He used it to support French authority in the New World, claiming the Carolinas for France, and to illustrate how the British Colonies were surrounding the French possessions in the west.
		In addition to presenting the first detailed depiction of the Mississippi Valley and delta, Delisle included the routes of early explorers, including De Soto and La Salle, as well as the phrase "Mission de los Teijas etablie en 1716," an early form of the place-name Texas.
	library.wisc.edu /libraries/SpecialCollections/histcart/frm_delis.htm (103 words)

	French Cartography
		Prominent among the new generation of scientific cartographers were Guillaume Delisle, whose maps of Africa and America were especially influential, J. d'Anville with notable maps of Africa and the Far East, Robert de Vaugondy (Atlas Universel, 1757) and L. Renard, J. d'Apres de Mannevillette and J. Bellin, famous for their sea charts.
		The Delisle (de L'Isle) family followed the Sansons as a major influence in the development of French cartography at the very beginning of the eighteenth century at a moment when Dutch publishers were finally losing their control of the map trade.
		Like Nicolas Sanson, Claude Delisle was a geographer and historian and had four sons, all of whom made their mark in the life of the time, but Guillaume was the most remarkable member of the family.
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		Search the GUILLAUME Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the GUILLAUME Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
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	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/G/GUILLAUME.htm (73 words)

	Delisle Grey Delisle, The Graceful Ghost, Singer And Voice Actress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father, Claude Delisle (1644-1720), having completed his law studies, settled in Paris as Guillaume Delisle adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making.
		Delisle, French lighting designer designs each year about one hundred new models of bronze lamps, gold chandeliers and provides all over the world its knowledge for antique lightings restoration.
		By the astronomer of the Navy, Joseph Nicolas Delisle, because of his fine hand-writing records of his observations.
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	Our Village
		Umiujaq is situated on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay.
		East of the village is Guillaume Delisle Lake (Richmond Gulf).
		South of the village is Le Goulet (The Gully) where the waters of Guillaume Delisle Lake (Richmond Gulf) drain into Hudson Bay.
	www3.sympatico.ca /kiluutaq.school/vill-2.htm (423 words)

	Joseph-Nicolas Delisle - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (4 April 1688 - 1768) was a French astronomer.
		Soon, however, he moved into astronomy under the supervision of J.
		This page was last modified 19:29, 14 Feb 2005.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Joseph-Nicolas_Delisle (187 words)

	Mercator's World : An Exercise in Map Genealogy. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guillaume Delisle's L'Amerique Septentrionale and Its Many Offspring
		Part I in the previous issue explored the various states made from Delisle's original plate.
		Working out the history of one plate, and the maps printed from it, is often relatively straightforward: We need only to identify the different "states" of the map and arrange them in the order in which they were created through modifications to the printing plate.
	static.highbeam.com /m/mercatorsworld/september012001/anexerciseinmapgenealogy (203 words)

	IMSS - Catalogo multimediale - Biografie - Guillaume Delisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Figlio di Claude Delisle (1644-1720), storico e geografo al servizio del re di Francia, Guillaume tracciò le sue prime carte in giovanissima età.
		Nel 1718 Delisle divenne Primo Geografo del re di Francia Luigi XIV (1638-1715), una nuova carica appositamente creata per lui che mantenne fino alla morte.
		Delisle va considerato come uno dei più importanti riformatori della cartografia francese.
	brunelleschi.imss.fi.it /genscheda.asp?appl=SIM&xsl=biografia&chiave=300179 (169 words)

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