Pierre Jacotin
{{Short description|French geographer (1765–1827)}}
Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827) was the director of the survey for the Carte de l'Égypte (Description de l'Égypte), the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
The maps were drafted in 1799–1800 during Napoleon‘s campaign in Egypt and Palestine.
After his return from Egypt, Jacotin worked on preparing the maps for publication, but in 1808 Napoleon formally declared them state secrets, apparently connected to Napoleon's efforts to establish an alliance with the Ottomans. The engraved plates were not published until 1828–1830.Khatib, 2003, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8R2pCJ8S6fAC&pg=PA211 211]
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|title=Palestine and Egypt Under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8R2pCJ8S6fAC|first1=Hisham|last1=Khatib|year=2003|publisher=I. B. Tauris|isbn=1-860-64888-6}}
Further reference
- {{cite journal | author = Kallner, D. H.| title = Jacotin's Map of Palestine | journal = Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund | volume = 76 | pages = 157–163 | year = 1944| doi=10.1179/peq.1944.76.1.157}}
- {{cite journal |author =Karmon, Y. |title = An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine|url=http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |journal = Israel Exploration Journal| volume = 10 |issue = 3,4 |year = 1960 |pages = 155–173; 244–253}}
- {{cite book|last=Panckoucke|first=Charles Louis Fleury |author-link=Panckoucke|title=Description de l'Égypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en ...|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiondelg12pancgoog|volume=17|year=1824|publisher=Imprimerie de C.L.F . Panckoucke|location=Paris}} (Pierre Jacotin: pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiondelg12pancgoog#page/n448/mode/1up 437]-652, “Syria”: pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiondelg12pancgoog#page/n607/mode/1up 594]-609 )
External links
- Jacotin maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?q=Author=Jacotin].
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