Le Neptune François, recueil de cartes marines publié en 1693 The French navy ministry establishes the ‘ Dépôt des cartes et plans,...

Edmund Halley Edmund Halley, the famous astronomer whom we already acknowledged in previous chronicles, now aged 45, publishes the...

William Phips William Phipps or Phips, aged 36, originally a shipwright before becoming a complete ship captain and a famous treasure...

Edmund Halley Edmund Halley, an astronomer and polymath aged 30, presents at the Royal Society a map of the Trade Winds also known as...

World Map by John Seller John Seller, 39 years old, a compass maker and a writer, already famous in the world of navigation for his...

Jean Picard, a priest, an astronomer and a geodesist, aged 49, has measured an arc of meridian between Paris and Amiens, hence the radius...