Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas

French cartographer, * Abbeville 12/20/1600, † Paris 7/7/1667.

Since 1627 Sanson had published over 140 maps which were partly merged to an atlas. Together with his sons Nicolas († 1698), Guillaume († 1703) and Adrien († 1708) as well as his grandson Pierre Moulard S. he controlled the French cartography for more than one hundred years.

Because of his map of the old Gallien (6 sheets, 1629) he obtained the title »Géographe du Roi«.

Since 1650 he had improved and used in many cases a map projection which had already been used by Mercator in 1606, the so called Sanson projection (sinusoidal projection).

  
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