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Digital Image: 1765 Engel Map of North America (speculative)
NorthAmerica-engel-1764-2_d
Title
Carte du la Partie Septentrionale et Occidentale de l'Amerique d'apres les relations les plus recentes dresses en 1764 par M.
1764 (undated) 20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm) 1 : 9600000
1764 (undated) 20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm) 1 : 9600000
Description
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Cartographer S
Samuel Engel (1702 - 1784) was a Swiss geographer, agronomist, and mathematician active in the middle part of the 18th century. His main work, Memoires and Observations was published in 1765 and while somewhat obscure today was highly influential in the 1700s. Engel argued that ice only formed in fresh water and that, such being the case, the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free and navigable closer to the poles. Engel's theories influenced exploration in search of the Northwest Passage, and specifically the launching of the disastrous 1773 Phipps expedition to the North Pole. He also wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopedie, including a description of a pre-Columbian Chinese colony in North America - Fusang. Engel also argued that Baron Lahonton, an enigmatic explorer of America's inland waterways, was in fact fictitious - though he nonetheless incorporated Lahonton's geography in his own maps. More by this mapmaker...
Jacques Anthony Chovin (1720 - 1776) was a Swiss-French engraver active in the mid to late 18th century. Chovin was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is unlcear where he was trained, but Chovin was an engraver of exceptional skill. He is best known for the dramatic engraving the 1744 edition of Mathieu Mérian's Der Basler Totentanz ('The Basel Dance of Death'). He engraved several maps for the swiss geographer Samuel Engel (1702 - 1784). He often signed his works 'I. A. Chovin.' Learn More...
Source
Engel, Samuel, Extraits raisonnés des voyages faits dans les parties septentrionales de l'Asie et de l'Amérique, ou nouvelles preuves de la possibilité d'un passage aux Indes par le Nord, (Lausanne: Jules Henri Pott) 1779.
References
Kershaw, K., Early Printed Maps of Canada, vol IV, no. 1122.