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Last Name Gaubil

Given Name Antoine

alt. Names A. G. ; Sun Kiun-yung / Антуан Гобиль ;

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Year born 1689 in Gaillac-d’Aveyron

Year died 1759

Place of death Peking

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Country of Activity France

Worked for map "The Ryukyu Islands with Part of Formosa (Taiwan)" (Paris 1758) ;

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Collaborators Jesuit Dominique Parrenin = Parennin = 巴多明 (1665-1741) ; astronomer and cartographer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving

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Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Gaubil

Published sources Joseph Dehergne: Le Père Gaubil et ses correspondants (1689-1759), in: Bulletin de l'Université l'Aurore, 3. série, tome 5, 1944: 354-92 ; Joseph Dehergne: Gaubil. Historien de l'astronomie chinoise, in: Bulletin de l'Université l'Aurore, 3. série, tome 6, 1945: 168-227 ; Boleslaw Szcześniak: The Antoine Gaubil Maps of the Ryukyu Islands and Southern Japan, in: Imago Mundi vol. 12 (1955): 141-9 ; Walter 1994: plate 108 ;

other Further Place of Activity: China (Peking = Beijing).

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