GEOGRAPHER

Guillaume Delisle

1675 - 1726

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Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (French pronunciation: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Delisle has received more than 150,876 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Delisle is the 57th most popular geographer (down from 56th in 2019), the 3,479th most popular biography from France (up from 3,733rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Geographer.

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  • 51.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Guillaume Delisle ranks 57 out of 86. Before him are Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, Pedro Reinel, Hans Meyer, Yves Lacoste, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi. After him are Emmanuel de Martonne, Claes Jansz. Visscher, August Heinrich Petermann, Torsten Hägerstrand, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, and Peter Schenk the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, Guillaume Delisle ranks 10. Before him are Tarabai, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, William Jones, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg. After him are Samuel Clarke, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and James Thornhill. Among people deceased in 1726, Guillaume Delisle ranks 13. Before him are Domenico Zipoli, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, and John Vanbrugh. After him are Antonio Palomino, Jakob Prandtauer, Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, Antonio Maria Bononcini, and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Delisle ranks 3,479 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Faidherbe (1818), Claude Cahen (1909), Henri Brisson (1835), Georges Carpentier (1894), Henri Rabaud (1873), and Francis Cabrel (1953). After him are Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Alexis Piron (1689), Octave Feuillet (1821), Jean Yanne (1933), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), and Gérard de Villiers (1929).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In France

Among geographers born in France, Guillaume Delisle ranks 5. Before him are Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Élisée Reclus (1830), Nicolas Sanson (1600), and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697). After him are Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), Nicolas de Fer (1646), and Guillaume Grandidier (1873).

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