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Jean-Baptiste Nolin and his son of the same name (✝ 1762), were the true innovators of French cartography. Their activity took place between the end of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century, when the primacy of cartographic production passed from the Dutch to the two emerging “imperial” navies, the English and French.
The atlas they edited, the Theatre du Monde, is dedicated to Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appears on the book's title page as the new Apollo and leads the sun chariot through the clouds.
The text of the volumes is articulated, the maps are complete and complex: they represent a world still largely undiscovered, but in which the exploratory routes to be followed are already outlined: this is the case of Australia, whose east coast will only be 'mapped' some seventy years later but which here sees the outlines of a new continent anticipated.
Another great contribution of J. B. Nolin is then the great contribution of J. B. Nolin. B. Nolin's great quadripartite map - i.e., divided into four plates, present at the beginning of the book - entitled ‘Le globe terrestre réprésenté en deux pian hemispheres dressé sur les dernières observations’: produced in 1700, with the precision of its engravings and the abundance of geo-cartographic details, it marked the advent of a new era in cartography. Collection of maps bound in one volume.