[MapHist] Raynal/Bonne, Atlas de toutes les parties connues

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 Google Earth will give coordinates of specific locations. If one uses a little prudence in the analysis, some startling materials appear from comparing the physical features illustrated on old maps, whose present locations are known, with the data from antiquity. The older materials are amazingly prescient. Your "Tugalo" in the region of "Georgia" might be an interesting example. While I have not seen the map, how does the latitude, and the converted longitude of that place name compare with "Tupelo, MI"? In the far north of North America, there are a number of truly amazing lat/long/locations, with specific, accurately illustrated geographic features appearing well before anyone claims to have beeen there. While rivers do change course, the major intersections of those rivers generally? remain in an area.Hope this helps, Carl Schuster


 


 

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I'm planning to publish a facsimile of the atlas that accompanied the 1780 edition of Raynal's "Histoire des deux Indes" (see http://c18.net/ra/ra_pages.php?nom=ra_presentation)  and am having some difficulty with the "Analyse succincte" that prefaces the atlas.?
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Has any work been published on this text or on the atlas? or undertaken by a member of the list and not yet published??
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I need to identify the places named by Raynal (or perhaps it was Bonne who wrote the "Analyse succincte"), one example is Tugelo or Tugalo in or around what is now Georgia. Is there a printed source for eighteenth-century place names, North American and others? the web seems not to be well-stocked in this area.?
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I also need to convert Raynal's (or Bonne's) French longitudes to those now current. Are there any tools to help with this??
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Finally I would like to be able to put a place name to specific coordinates. There are plenty of sites that provide coordinates for places, but I have not yet found one that goes the other way, or that takes one to a map.?
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AB?

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