Sanson, N. (English spelling) SansonN

…In particular, Ortelius, who was a contemporary of Mercator, published an atlas entitled The Stage of the World in 1570, which was innovative in that it covered each region of the world almost equally, and thus began the “era of atlases” that lasted for about a century. In the second half of the 17th century, the center of cartography shifted to Paris, and in 1658, royal geographer N. Sanson published an atlas that made full use of the well-balanced sine-area projection (Sanson projection). Astronomer G. D. Cassini, who was invited from Italy to become the director of the Paris Observatory in 1669, and his descendants made a great contribution to geodesy and cartography. His 1:86,400 map of France (182 sheets in total), completed in 1793, was a precise topographical map created by triangulation surveying, which had a great influence on subsequent official maps produced by developed countries, ushering in the “era of large-scale maps” that continues to this day. …

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…なかでもメルカトルと同時代のオルテリウスは1570年世界の各地域をほぼ均等に扱った斬新な内容の地図帳《世界の舞台》を刊行し，以後約1世紀にわたる〈地図帳時代〉の幕を開けた。　17世紀後半になると，地図学の中心はパリに移り，王室地理学者サンソンN.Sansonは1658年均整のとれた正弦正積図法(サンソン図法)を駆使した地図帳を刊行した。1669年パリ天文台長としてイタリアから招かれた天文学者G.D.カッシニとその子孫の測地学･地図学への貢献は大きく，1793年に完成した8万6400分の1フランス全域図(全182葉)は，三角測量による精密な地形図で，その後の先進諸国の官製地図に大きな影響を及ぼし，現在に続く〈大縮尺図時代〉を到来させることとなった。…

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