Bonne Rigobert
Contenu
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Nom
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Bonne Rigobert
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Date de naissance
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06 10 1727
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Date de mort
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02 11 1795
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Lieu de naissance
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Raucourt (Ardennes)
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 18th century
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Biographie
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The son of a labourer, Bonne became a mathematician and geographer, but was primarily a cartographer after, in his early life having served as a military engineer, notably at the siege of Berg-op-Zoom during the Flanders war in 1747. In 1772 he was reccomended by La Lande for a post in the Dépôt de la Marine where, in 1775 he succeeded Giovanni Rizzi Zannoni 'as Cartographe du Roi au Service Hydrographique de la Marine'. In the same year, he suffered from a paralytic attack which left him partly disabled for the rest of his life. In c. 1780, he gave final form to the map projection that bears his name,1 concerning which he had vituperative controversy with Didier Robert de Vaugondy (qv). In the course of his career, Bonne produced a number of globes most notably in collaboration with Jérôme de Lalande with whom he produced a terrestrial and celestial pair engraved by Jean Lattré.
Globes : Terrestrial 32.5cm, first edition c.1771
terrestrial 32.5cm, second edition 1782
terrestrial 22cm., 1783.
terrerstrial 15.5cm, 1775, 1783, 1788
celestial 32.5cm, (? second edition), 1779
celestial 22cm
celestial 15.5cm
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Notes biographiques
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1 This is a sinusoidal conic projection in which the parallels are shown as equally spaced concentric arcs. The facility of its construction recommended it to map-makers and it has been widely used. For details see Greenhood 144-46. Concerning it he had a vituperative controversy with Didier Robert de Vaugondy For a brief account see Pedley, 110-12.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Paris
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Identifiant
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3303
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