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Map Map of the Persian Gulf. Carte Du Golphe Persique

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Title

  • Map of the Persian Gulf.

Other Title

  • Carte Du Golphe Persique

Summary

  • This map of the Persian Gulf 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).

Names

  • Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772 Cartographer.

Created / Published

  • Paris : Bellin, 1763.

Headings

  • -  Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • -  Bahrain
  • -  Iraq
  • -  Kuwait
  • -  Oman
  • -  Qatar
  • -  Saudi Arabia
  • -  United Arab Emirates
  • -  1763
  • -  Arabian Gulf
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Nautical charts
  • -  Persian Gulf

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map : copper engraving ; 22 x 17 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668547

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Chicago citation style:

Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, Cartographer. Map of the Persian Gulf. Paris: Bellin, 1763. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668547/.

APA citation style:

Bellin, J. (1763) Map of the Persian Gulf. Paris: Bellin. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668547/.

MLA citation style:

Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, Cartographer. Map of the Persian Gulf. Paris: Bellin, 1763. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668547/>.