Atlas Suisse
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atlas-suisse-316-14025629
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Atlas Suisse
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The Atlas Suisse, by Johann Rudolf Meyer and Johann Heinrich Weiss, is the oldest map series based upon scientific survey and covering the whole of Switzerland. It was published between 1786 and 1802. In 1786, the industrialist Johann Rudolf Meyer, who came from Aarau, decided to create a map of Switzerland at his own expense. For that purpose, he engaged a geometer, Johann Heinrich Weiss of Strasbourg. The foundations for Meyer's map were baseline measurements by the scientist Johann Georg Tral
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Suisse
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2020-01-04T19:28:14Z
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