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| Number: | 4012 |
| Continent: | Africa |
| Region: | North |
| Place Names: | Egypt, Nile Delta, Red Sea, Sinai, Suez |
| Year of Origin: | 1798 |
| Title: | Mapa de Egypto llamado en el pais Missir |
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| Language: | Spanish |
| Publish Origin: | Madrid |
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Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca |
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| Measurement Notes: | Modern Greenwich estimates |
| Notes: | PENDING Ruderman source# (85684);Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca (1730-1802) was one of Spain's most prominent cartographers in the eighteenth century. He was born in Toledo but studied at the Colegio Imperial in Madrid, where he focused on mathematics, grammar, and rhetoric. Along with a small group of colleagues, in 1752 the Spanish government sent Lopez for training in Paris with the renowned geographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. When he returned to Spain he was named Geografo de los dominios de Su Magestad and put in charge of the geographic collections of Charles III. He published many maps, including his fascinating maps of the Americas, and a variety of geography manuals. Some of his most famous maps are of the Iberian Peninsula, part of his large project to create a majestic atlas of Spain. Unfinished in his lifetime, Lopez's children published the Atlas Geografico de Espana (Geographical Atlas of Spain) in 1804. It was republished in 1810 and 1830. |
| Last updated: Jun 23, 2022 |