INDIA BELOW AND BEYOND THE GANGES, OR THE EMPIRE OF THE GREAT MOGUL
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Map Maker: Nicolas Sanson (1600 - 1667)
Map Maker: Guillaume Sanson (1633 - 1703)
Date: 1654
Short Title: India below and beyond the Ganges, or the Empire of the Great Mogul
Publisher: Cloistre de S Nicolas duLouvre
Place: Paris
Map size-Height: 34.2 cm
Map size-Width: 54.4 cm
Paper size-Height: 38.6 cm
Paper size-Width: 58.2 cm
Full Title: L'Inde deca et dela le Gange, ou est l'Empire du Grand Mogol (India below and beyond the Ganges, or the Empire of the Great Mogul.)
Detailed map of the region bounded by Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west and western China on the east, showing most of India and extending north to the Himalayas and south to the Indian Ocean..br.
Nicolas Sanson revolutionized map making in the mid-17th Century by striving to make his maps more precise and scientific than his Dutch colleagues, including more detail and less embellishment and fantasy. His work marks the beginning ofthe end of Dutch dominance of the map trade and the start of the period where the French were at the forefront of the science of cartography.
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