Jean-Baptiste Nolin

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Jean-Baptiste Nolin (c. 1657–1708) was a French cartographer and engraver.

Life and career[]

Jean-Baptiste Nolin was born c. 1657.[1] He trained with the engraver François de Poilly, which caught the attention of the Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, who invited him to engrave his own maps.[2] In 1694 Nolin was named geographer to the Duke of Orléans (Philippe II), and in 1701 he was named engraver to the king (Louis XIV). Nolin set up a family publishing house on Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, which was initially unsuccessful until it was moved nearer to other geographers on . Many of Nolin's maps were based on previous works by Coronelli and the amateur geographer , known as Sieur de Tillemon, who supplied him with most of his material.[2]

In 1700, Nolin published Le Globe Terreste, a 125×140 cm world map.[2] He was subsequently accused of plagiarism by , the father of Guillaume Delisle, another cartographer.[3] Claude accused Nolin of copying both the shape of California (depicting it as a peninsula rather than an island) and the mouth of the Mississippi River from a manuscript globe by Guillaume, which he had been working on since 1697 for , the chancellor of France.[4] Nolin denied these accusations. Eventually, both Nolin and Guillaume were compelled to present their respective maps before a panel of experts, and to explain their sources for them.[4] Nolin argued that the information he had used for his map was in the public domain, but the panel ruled in the Delisles' favour.[3] Nolin was ordered to stop producing his map.[5] The entire case took six years.[6]

Nolin's son, also named Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686–1762), took over the business upon his father's death. Jean-Baptiste the younger produced an atlas that was published posthumously in 1783, 21 years after his death.

Gallery[]

  • Le Globe Terreste

  • Les Montagnes des Sevenes dans le Languedoc

  • El Reyno de España

  • Carte du Capchac Partie du Royaume de Gete

See also[]

References[]

Citations

  1. ^ Bagrow 2010, p. 263.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sponberg Pedley 2005, p. 107.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Balash 2008, p. 29.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Sponberg Pedley 2005, p. 109.
  5. ^ Balash 2008, p. 30.
  6. ^ Sponberg Pedley 2005, p. 113.
Sources
  • Bagrow, Leo (2010). History of Cartography. Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction. ISBN 9781412825184. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  • Balash, Andrew M. (2008). How Maps Tell the Truth by Lying: An Analysis of Delisle's 1718 Carte de la Louisiane (PDF). Arlington, Texas: University of Texas. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  • Petto, Christine Marie (2007). When France was King of Cartography: The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739117767. OCLC 73502672. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  • Sponberg Pedley, Mary (2005). The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226653419. OCLC 218493541. Retrieved 2 August 2017.

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