Description

Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin – French Hydrographer to the Navy
Date: 1753
Title: Carte Réduite de l’Océan Méridional

Details:

Original mid-18th century French nautical chart of the South Atlantic Ocean, engraved by the important French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin.

Coverage includes:

• Brazil

• Argentina

• Chile

• Patagonia

• Strait of Magellan

• Falkland Islands

• Routes across the South Atlantic Ocean

The chart is a navigation map (carte réduite) filled with rhumb lines and compass bearings used by 18th-century navigators crossing between South America and Africa.

Bellin served as Hydrographer to the French Navy and his charts were widely used by explorers and naval expeditions during the Age of Enlightenment.

Specifications: 93 x 64cm

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