Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Explorers' Maps of the Great Lakes and Their Influence on Subsequent Cartography of the Region
When the French coureurs des bois and missionaries began to penetrate the interior of North America around the middle of the seventeenth century, they were confronted with a hydrological system of remarkable complexity, unique in the world. Some hints of the relationship of the five Great Lakes had...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-70 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Canada
B Jean-Baptiste Franquelin B New France B Jacques Marquette B Lake Superior B Guillaume Delisle B Claude Dablon B Jesuit Cartography B Claude Allouez B Claude Delisle B Louis Jolliet |
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| Summary: | When the French coureurs des bois and missionaries began to penetrate the interior of North America around the middle of the seventeenth century, they were confronted with a hydrological system of remarkable complexity, unique in the world. Some hints of the relationship of the five Great Lakes had been garnered by Samuel de Champlain in the early part of the century, but the western Great Lakes remained virtually unknown to Europeans about 1650. The delineation of this region was the work of four Jesuit-trained cartographers, whose work can (rather unusually) be completely traced from exploration to the original manuscript and then to the versions printed in Europe. It was in this way that French Jesuit maps came to form part of the North American cartographic image of many contemporary Europeans. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00601005 |