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File:Wind rose detail from 1775 Bonne Map or Chart of the Spheres and Compass Rose - Geographicus - Spheres-bonne-1775 (cropped).jpg

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Rigobert Bonne: French: Sphère de Ptolomée. Sphère droite. Sphère parallèle. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents en usage sur l’Océan. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents qu’on employe sur la Méditerranée.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rigobert Bonne  (1727–1794)  wikidata:Q721492
 
Alternative names
epiphane
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 1795
Location of birth/death Raucourt (Ardennes) Paris
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Pontault-Combault Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q721492
Title
French:
Sphère de Ptolomée. Sphère droite. Sphère parallèle. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents en usage sur l’Océan. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents qu’on employe sur la Méditerranée.
title QS:P1476,fr:"Sphère de Ptolomée. Sphère droite. Sphère parallèle. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents en usage sur l’Océan. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents qu’on employe sur la Méditerranée."
label QS:Lfr,"Sphère de Ptolomée. Sphère droite. Sphère parallèle. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents en usage sur l’Océan. Rose de Boussole avec les noms des Vents qu’on employe sur la Méditerranée."
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English: A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's curious decorative chart of the Spheres. Features five different spheres used in mapmaking and calculating map projections. From top left, Sphere de Ptolomee, Sphere Droite (Right Sphere), Sphere Parallele (Parallel Sphere), Rose de Boussole (Compass Rose), and another Rose de Boussole (Compass Rose). Drawn by R. Bonne around 1775 for issue as plate no. C in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1775 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13.5 in (34.2 cm); width: 17.5 in (44.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Spheres-bonne-1775
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Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.

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