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Edme-François Jomard

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Jomard's main task as curator at the Bibliothèque royale was to organize the existing collections and to develop the library's collection of contemporary maps. But he was also concerned with the history of cartography, searching for early maps and arranging for facsimiles to be prepared that could be
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in 1802, and published between 1809 and 1892. This seminal publication on Egyptology was a collaboration effort of some 150 prominent French scientist and scholars and 2,000 technicians and artists, with Jomard as chief editor. It is the record of Bonaparte's
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Root, Nina J. 2012. "Egypt Revealed." IN: Baione, Tom. 2012. Natural histories: extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library. New York, NY: Sterling Signature. Page
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of about 1300 to early maps of the Americas (16th century). They were prepared at full size, some maps requiring multiple folio sheets. The collection, entitled
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The Jomard Award was established by the Société de Géographie in 1882 for auxiliary sciences and services provided to the French Geographical Society (
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Edney, Matthew H. (2023). "The first facsimile collections and the parisian origins of the history of cartography".
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Through his membership of the society, he was also involved in awarding the French explorer,
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Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco,...
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published, thus making them available for scholarly study. The maps ranged from the
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which was published in 1830. The work was translated into English and published as
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Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862
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1542 map of Central America, facsimile published in Monuments de la géographie
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Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné dans l'Afrique Centrale, ...
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René Caillié, l'Africain : une vie d'explorateur, 1799-1838
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French cartographer, engineer and archaeologist (1777–1862)
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Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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in Paris. With the Irish exile and former American consul
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Proceedings of the Western Society for French History
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[ʒɔmaʁ]
cartographer
engineer
archaeologist
Institut d'Egypte
Napoleon
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
collège Mazarin
École nationale des ponts et chaussées
École polytechnique
Bibliothèque royale
Description de l'Égypte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Commission des Sciences et des Arts
French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Hereford Mappa Mundi
Société de Géographie
David Baillie Warden
Palenque
Yucatán Peninsula
René Caillié
American Philosophical Society
American Antiquarian Society
List of Egyptologists
Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862
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