L'Allemagne

Nicolas Sanson's L'Allemagne mapped Germany several times over: by its general divisions, imperial circles and ecclesiastica...

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Nicolas Sanson's L'Allemagne mapped Germany several times over: by its general divisions, imperial circles and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, and by the territories of its states and principalities. These antique maps are dated 1645 and 1651, and the later Germanie sheets turn back to the ancient peoples of the region, one of them explicitly following Ptolemy. Sanson (1600–1667) was a French cartographer who combined contemporary and historical geography, and his French titles keep the categories through which seventeenth-century readers understood central Europe.

Nicolas Sanson's L'Allemagne mapped Germany several times over: by its general divisions, imperial circles and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, and by the territories of its states and principalities. These antique maps are dated 1645 and 1651, and the later Germanie sheets turn back to the ancient peoples of the region, one of them explicitly following Ptolemy. Sanson (1600–1667) was a French cartographer who combined contemporary and historical geography, and his French titles keep the categories through which seventeenth-century readers understood central Europe.

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