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579:, no longer incognita, as this Map demonstrates, but the Southern Continent Discovered. It lies precisely in the richest climates of the World... and therefore whoever perfectly discovers and settles it will become infalliably possessed of Territories as Rich, as fruitful, and as capable of Improvement, as any that have hitherto been found out, either in the East Indies or the West.
598:. There is evidence to suggest that both Huygens and Hooke later laid claim to the invention of the spirit level, although only within their own countries. There is no surviving portrait of Thévenot, and an alleged portrait of him (such as can be seen in Gerrit Lindeboom's edition of Thévenot's letters to Swammerdam) is actually of his nephew Jean.
437:(J. Blaeu, 1663): “Papas landt or Nova Guinea, Nova Hollandia, discovered in the year 1644, Nova Zeelandia or New Zealand reached in 1642, Antoni van Diemens land found in the same year, Carpentaria, thus named after General Carpentier, and still other lands, partly discovered, are shown on this map.”
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Sir Joseph Banks, 'Draft of proposed
Introduction to Captn Flinders Voyages', November 1811; State Library of New South Wales, The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Series 70.16; quoted in Robert J. King, "Terra Australis, New Holland and New South Wales: the Treaty of Tordesillas and Australia",
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Sir Joseph Banks, 'Draft of proposed
Introduction to Captn Flinders Voyages', November 1811; State Library of New South Wales, The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Series 70.16; quoted in Robert J. King, "Terra Australis, New Holland and New South Wales: the Treaty of Tordesillas and Australia",
526:, emphasized by the latitude staff running down that meridian, appears to have been an initiative of Thevenot's, as there is no such division on Blaeu's map or on the Amsterdam Town Hall map. This apparent division may have been fortuitous, as on other Dutch maps of this period
474:'s discoveries using information from Dutch sources, notably Joan Blaeu's world map published in 1659. Although Thévenot said that he had taken his chart from the one inlaid into the floor of the Amsterdam Town Hall, in fact it appears to be an almost exact copy of that of
490:(“Atlas of the Great Elector“). The map of the world set into the floor of the great hall of the Amsterdam Town Hall was drawn from Blaeu's world map of 1648. Once Blaeu's map of the world appeared other mapmakers, such as Thévenot, copied his depiction of New Holland.
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Thévenot invented the spirit level (or bubble level) some time before 2 February 1661, which he filled with alcohol and mounted on a stone ruler fitted with a viewing lens. This date can be established from Thévenot's correspondence with scientist
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Photo of the marble floor inlaid into the
Amsterdam Town Hall showing Nova Hollandia and Terra Dimensis – the inlayer incorrectly connected the two, while the original Blaeu map shows the gap.
196:. Thévenot's baptismal name was Nicolas, Melchisédech being added as the second (confirmation) name, almost certainly in honour of his maternal grandfather, Melchisédech Garnier (d. 1637), an
271:, and demonstrated in the 1660s the possibility that atmospheric pulsations had something to do with human and animal respiration. Between 1658 and 1661 Thévenot conducted experiments on
342:. It is occasionally argued that these bubble levels did not come into widespread use until the beginning of the 18th century—the earliest surviving examples being from that time—but
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Zandvliet, "Golden Opportunities in Geopolitics: Cartography and the Dutch East India Company during the Lifetime of Abel Tasman", in William Eisler and Bernard Smith,
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A Complete Map of the
Southern Continent survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt House at Amsterdam
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We took the opportunity provided by the cold of recent months and applied ourselves to dissections and to investigating the generation of animals (Thévenot 1665).
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591:, established in 1788, the British government set its western boundary at the meridian of 135° East of Greenwich, as it appeared on Thévenot's chart.
136:(c. 1620 – 29 October 1692) was a French author, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was the inventor of the
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region, and includes a printed page from one of this sect's holy books, one of the first printed appearances of the
Mandaean language in Europe.
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on Thévenot's map fell along the meridian that represented the western limit of Spain's imperial claim in the South
Pacific arising from the
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to the east of a latitude staff running down the meridian equivalent to longitude 135 degrees East of
Greenwich. The differentiation between
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Thévenot came from a family of royal office holders (nobles of the robe), which partly explains his wealth. He was reputed to speak
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Thévenot was an amateur scientist and a patron of many scientists and mathematicians, maintaining correspondence with figures like
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in 1666. It is very likely that these levels were in use in France and elsewhere long before the beginning of the 18th century.
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Thévenot can be credited in sponsoring a scientific study that contributed to the discovery of the nature and mechanism of
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and adding three inscriptions promoting the benefits of exploring and colonizing the country. One inscription said:
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in 1606. This western limit of Spain's claim is shown on the 1761 map of the
Spanish Empire by Vicente de Memije,
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McClaughlin, Trevor (1975). "Sur les rapports entre la
Compagnie de Thévenot et l'Académie royale des Sciences".
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British Library K. Top. cxviii, 19 and Servicio Geográfico del Ejercito, Madrid ; O.H.K. Spate,
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326:. Within a year of this date, the inventor circulated details of his invention to others, including
758:, Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2007, p. 32; this map is reproduced in Gunter Schilder,
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Turner, Anthony J. (1992). "Melchisédech Thévenot, the bubble level, and the artificial horizon".
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It is impossible to conceive a Country that promises fairer from its Situation than this of
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Australia in Maps: Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection
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McClaughlin, Trevor (1974). "Une Lettre de Melchisédech Thévenot".
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Knight, T. M. (1966). "From Terra Incognita to New Holland".
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later visited this region). Thévenot makes reference to the
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of 1494 and act of possession of the South Land made by
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take "levels of the Thévenot type" on its expedition to
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Mémoire sur la Collection des grands et petits voyages
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