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Guillaume Delisle

1675 - 1726

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Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, (French: [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 142,500 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Delisle is the 56th most popular geographer, the 3,749th most popular biography from France and the 5th most popular French Geographer.

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  • 140k

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  • 48.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Guillaume Delisle ranks 56 out of 67. Before him are Conrad Malte-Brun, Yi-Fu Tuan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Jan Janssonius, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, and Claes Jansz. Visscher. After him are Hans Meyer, Vaclav Smil, Ellen Churchill Semple, Adolf Stieler, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Anton Friedrich Büsching.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, Guillaume Delisle ranks 12. Before him are Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, William Jones, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Samuel Clarke, and Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him is James Thornhill. Among people deceased in 1726, Guillaume Delisle ranks 15. Before him are Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, John Vanbrugh, Antonio Palomino, and Jakob Prandtauer. After him is Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Delisle ranks 3,749 out of 6,011. Before him are Simon Abkarian (1962), Désirée Artôt (1835), André Clot (1909), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Gaston Gallimard (1881), and Joanni Perronet (1877). After him are Eva Ionesco (1965), Saïd Taghmaoui (1973), Marcel Deprez (1843), Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Gérard Pirès (1942), and Marcel Cachin (1869).

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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).

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