Map of the Persian Gulf

12889

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The record is made up of 1 items. It was created in 1763. It was written in French. The original is part of the Qatar National Library.

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This map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703−72). Qatar is shown as Catura. Cities on both the Arabian and Persian sides of the gulf are indicated, and the map shows a river emptying into the gulf at the port of Julfar (present-day Ra's al-Khaymah, United Arab Emirates). The scale is in common leagues, and there are no latitudinal or longitudinal lines. Trained as a hydrographer, Bellin was attached to the French Marine Office and specialized in producing maritime maps showing coastlines. His maps were in the tradition of Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667), the royal geographer to Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV commonly known as the father of French cartography, and of Guillaume de l'Isle (1675−1726), one of a group of French cartographers that wrested mapmaking preeminence from the Dutch in the late 17th century. Like Sanson and de l’Isle, Bellin placed great emphasis on scientific accuracy rather than on artistic beauty for its own sake. In 1764, he published Le Petit Atlas Maritime: Recueil de Cartes et de Plans des Quatre Parties du Monde (Small maritime atlas: collection of maps and charts of the four parts of the world), a work in five volumes containing 581 maps. This map appeared as plate 8 in volume 3 of this work, containing maps of Asia (part I) and Africa (part II).

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1 items
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1 map : copper engraving ; 22 x 17 centimeters

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French in Latin script
Type
Map

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Qatar National Library
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12889

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1763 (CE, Gregorian)

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Map of the Persian Gulf, Qatar National Library, 12889, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/qnlhc/12889> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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