Philippe Buasch ( fr. Philippe Buache ; February 2, 1700 , Neuville-o-Pont - January 24, 1773 , Paris ) - French royal geographer and cartographer .
| Philippe Buych | |
|---|---|
| Philippe buache | |
| Date of Birth | February 2, 1700 |
| Place of Birth | Neuville-au-Pont , France |
| Date of death | January 24, 1773 (72 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| A country | |
| Occupation | , , , |
| Awards and prizes | Roman Prize ( 1721 ) |
The creator of a new physical and geographical system - the distribution of the earth's surface in river basins. It was named the first largest ocean by the Great (1752), which for a long time was supported by geographers and oceanographers [1] . The inventor of the first methods of depicting the topography of the day on maps in the form of lines of equal depths is isobaths . [2] .
Uncle Jean-Nicola Buyt (1741-1825), also a royal geographer.
Activities
Trained as an architect. He was engaged in geography and ethnography under the leadership of Delil , married his daughter. In 1729 he took the post of the first royal geographer; in 1730 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences . He created a new physical and geographical system in which he distributed the earth's surface along river basins, and divided the seas according to the mountains passing along the bottom of them, designated, in his opinion, by islands and rocks.
Named the largest ocean , in area exceeding the entire land of the globe, the Great Ocean ( fr. La Grande Mer ; 1752); such a term was one of two common names and was recognized as more correct by geographers and oceanographers, especially Russian and German, but the name Pacific, given by the traveler Magellan (1520) and used exclusively by the British and French, became commonplace. [3] .
Buasch’s attempts to graphically depict the reliefs of the North Sea (referred to as Buysch German) and the English Channel on the basis of depth measurements and his idea of depicting a land relief using a horizontal system subsequently led to the creation of hypsometry and to depicting its results on maps using horizontal lines and special systems of shrafirovaniye and coloring [4] .
Editions
- "Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les nouvelles découvertes de la Grande Mer" (Paris, 1753);
- Atlas physique (in 20 tables, Paris, 1754).
- "Parallèle des fleuves de toutes les parties du monde", printed in "Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences" (Paris, 1753).
Philippe Buasch also issued corrections with most of Delil's maps.
Notes
- ↑ Pacific Ocean // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Russia / Physical Geography / Orography of the Russian Empire // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Great Ocean // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : in 66 volumes (65 volumes and 1 additional) / Ch. ed. O. Yu. Schmidt . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1926-1947.
- ↑ Geography // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Buash, Philippe // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.