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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan

Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan or William le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect.

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''. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the army of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland between 1630 and 1647 or 1648. == General Map of Ukraine ==
General Map of Ukraine
In 1639, Beauplan created the first "descriptive" map of Ukraine. He created the General Map of Ukraine in 1648 that had detailed border information. By 1654 he was working in Gdańsk (Danzig). He created a map with a scale of 1:452,000 and an additional map scaled at 1:1,800,000. Both maps were engraved by Willem Hondius. These maps would go on to be published in Rouen, France and reproduced by Benjamin Cordt. Beauplan published the Special Map of Ukraine in the 1650s, and another map of the Dnieper River in 1662. == Description of Ukraine ==
Description of Ukraine
'' (1660). Click for full PDF. Beauplan wrote the Description des contrés du Royaume de Pologne ("Description of the Kingdom of Poland's Lands"), which was published in 1651. • Antonovich: Kiev 1896 (Russian) • Liaskoronskii: Kiev 1901 (Russian) • Petryshyn: New York 1959 (English) • Blaeu: Amsterdam 1967 (French) • Wójcik: Warsaw 1972 (Polish) • Isaievych: Lviv 1981 (Ukrainian) == References ==
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