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Last Name Bellin

Given Name Jacques Nicolas

alt. Names J. N. B. ; Jacques-Nicolas Bellin / J. N. Sier / d. Ä. / Belin der Ältere / the Elder ;

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Year born 1703 in Paris, France

Year died 1772

Place of death Versailles, France

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Country of Activity France

Worked for many maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine in large folio ; J. N. B.: Petit Atlas Maritime (1764, 5 vols., with 580 detailed sea charts) ; Essai geographique sur les isles britanniques (1757-59) ; Antoine François Prévost: Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746-59) ; map "Japan" (Paris 1736 / 1754) ; map "Japan and Kamchatka" (Paris 1735) ; map "Japan with Ezo (Hokkaido) and Kamchatka" (Paris 1752) ; map "Japan, Korea, and the Chinese Coast down to Canton" (Paris 1746 / Amsterdam 1773) ; map "Edo (Tokyo)" (Paris 1736) ; map "Nagasaki" (Paris 1736) ; map "Nagasaki" (Paris 1763) ;

Patronage since 1721 hydrographer (from 1741 chief hydrogr.) of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine,Paris & Royal Society,London

Collaborators engraver -> Jean Baptiste Croisey ; engraver Guillaume d'Heuland ; publisher Firmin Didot (1764-1836) ; Diderot & d'Alembert: Encyclopédie ;

Techniques maritime, topographical, and cartographical map-making and drawing ; hand-colouring

Sample(s) www.wdl.org/fr/item/1203/ ; texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2456/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bellin_-_Carte_reduite_de_l%27ocean_septentrional

Archival sources http://historic-marine-france.com/cartes-marines/bellin.html ; https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/jacques-nicolas-bellin-and-cartography-cod ;

Published sources Jean-Marc Garant: J. N. B.-cartographe, hydrographe, ingénieur du ministère de la Marine (MA-thesis, Montréal 1973) ;John Blake: Vermessung der Meere. Historische Seekarten (2007: 84f.) ; Walter 1994: plates 81, 82A, 82B, 83, 90, 100 & 101 ;

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