Pierre Jacotin
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Pierre Jacotin was named director of all the surveyor
s and geographer
s working in the Nile
Valley in 1799 during the campaign in Egypt of Napoleon. After his return from Egypt
, Jacotin worked on preparing the plates for publication, but in 1808 Napoleon formally forbade publication of any map of the country. It was not until the Restoration
that the engraved plates could be utilized.
Surveying
See Also: Public Land Survey SystemSurveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them...
s and geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
s working in the Nile
Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is long. It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt.The Nile has two major...
Valley in 1799 during the campaign in Egypt of Napoleon. After his return from Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, Jacotin worked on preparing the plates for publication, but in 1808 Napoleon formally forbade publication of any map of the country. It was not until the Restoration
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
that the engraved plates could be utilized.
Further reference
- Karmon, Y, (1960), An analysis of Jaconin's map of Palestine, IEJ (=Israel Exploration Journal), 10, pp. 155-173 and 244-153.
External links
- Jacotin maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionDavid Rumsey Historical Map CollectionThe David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is one of the world's largest private map collections. It has some 150,000 maps and cartographic items...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?q=Author=Jacotin.