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Aug 01, 1740 Died on 31 Oct 1817 (aged 77)
French geographer
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About Charles François Delamarche
- Charles-François Delamarche (1740 - 1817) was a French geographer and mapmaker. One of the most important French geographers and mapmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century.
- Successor to Nicolas Sanson (1600 – 1667), Robert de Vaugondy (1686 – 1766), and Rigobert Bonne (1727 – 1794), whose atlases he reprinted.
- Also taught geography.
- In addition to maps and globes, his works include a treatise on the use of the sphere and celestial and terrestrial globes.
- In the treatise, he illustrates both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, as well as listing all the ancient and modern constellations.
- His son Félix Delamarche (18th century – 1st half 19th century) continued his work.
