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    Pierre Desceliers (fl. 1537–1553) was a French cartographer of the Renaissance and an eminent member of the Dieppe School of Cartography. He is considered...
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    2015-09-04. D. "Digital Collections - Maps - Desceliers, Pierre, 1487-1553. [Faictes a Arques par Pierre Desceliers presbre 1546 cartographic material". Retrieved...
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    Labrador is a map of the region drawn in 1550 by French cartographer Pierre Desceliers, which depicts three bears on the coast. One bear is white and is...
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    identifies and names "Los Chagos" (in about the right position) is that of Pierre Desceliers (Dieppe 1550), although Diego Garcia is not named. An island called...
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    Cristóbal Vaca de Castro visited. 1550 – Malpelo was recorded in Pierre Desceliers' map. 1704 – Wreck of the English vessel Cinque Ports 1790 – Spanish...
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    of 1542, the Dauphin Map or Harleian World Map of c. 1547, and in Pierre Desceliers' mappemonde of 1546. Alfonse's map of La Grande Jave bears a striking...
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    Abrolhos. That island is unlabelled on most of the Dieppe maps but, on Pierre Desceliers' 1550 map, it is labelled Arenes. In 1895, George Collingridge suggested...
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  • Henry VIII of England. The Dieppe school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Johne Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens...
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  • Ruy López de Villalobos, Spanish explorer (died 1546) approx. date Pierre Desceliers, French cartographer (died 1558) Ambrosius Ehinger, Bavarian explorer...
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    Harley, made by an unknown cartographer in the mid-1540s, that made by Pierre Desceliers in 1546, and also Guillaume Le Testu’s Cosmographie Universelle of...
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    Dieppe maps produced for wealthy Renaissance patrons including one by Pierre Desceliers, the Queen Mary Atlas made by Portuguese map-maker Diogo Homem, one...
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  • Hungarians and Bashkirs. The cartographers Johannes Schöner (1523) and Pierre Desceliers (1553) located the Blaci people north of the Caspian Sea. Rásonyi...
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    16th century, Dieppe appeared as an important school of cartography. Pierre Desceliers allowed the realization of many maps. At the same time, the Portolan...
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  • Medieval and Renaissance Maps ISBN 9780712357715 The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550 ISBN 9780712356183 Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic...
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  • 1939 Minesweeper, returned Dec 1945 HMT Pierre Andre Jul 1940 Minesweeper, returned Jan 1946 HMT Pierre Desceliers Aug 1940 Auxiliary patrol, boom defense...
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  • Michael Servetus, Aragonese polymath (b. 1511) (executed for heresy) Pierre Desceliers, French cartographer and hydrographer (born c. 1500) Ronan, Colin...
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  • Pierre Desceliers's 'Harleian' World Map (1536) is a subject of discussion in Wrack. It is also one of the four maps which Bradley included as images...
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  • Beothuk? Innu? Inuit? or St. Lawrence Iroquoians? The Whalers on the 1546 Desceliers Map, Seen Through the Eyes of Different Beholders. Newfoundland and Labrador...
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