Nicolas Sanson

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A 1650 map of Sanson's showing North America (with California depicted as an island)
Temeswar, now Timișoara in Romania, view by Sanson of 1656
Sanson's map of West Africa, 1655
Map of the Ottoman Empire (1654), Nicolas Sanson

Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father of French cartography."[1]

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