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Subject: Re: 1768 Map depicting the Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:07:40 -0400
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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Adding to what was posted by Ed Redmond, there is a nice article on the
Franklin-Folger chart, discussing both the ca. 1768 map and the updated
ca. 1783 French variant published by Le Rouge:
Benjamin Franklin, Georges-Louis Le Rouge and the Franklin/Folger
Chart of the Gulf
Stream
Author(s): Ellen R. Cohn
Source: Imago Mundi, Vol. 52 (2000), pp. 124-142
Published by: Imago Mundi, Ltd.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1151482
For a more general discussion of the charting of the Gulf Stream, to
include the cartographic works of William Gerard de Brahm, see:
Pioneer charting of the gulf stream: The contributions of Benjamin
Franklin and William Gerard de Brahm
Author: Louis De Vorsey
DOI: 10.1080/03085697608592433
Published in: journal Imago Mundi, Volume 28, Issue 1 1976 , pages
105 - 120
Joel Kovarsky
On 6/9/2010 9:38 AM, Angie Cope wrote:
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> Subject: 1768 Map depicting the Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:31:33 -0400
> From: Redmond, Edward James <[log in to unmask]>
> To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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> With all the sad happenings in the Gulf of Mexico, there are a plethora
> contempary maps depicting the forecasted extent of the "event".
>
> An historic map related to the Gulf that some may not be aware of is
> Benjamin Franklin's 1768 map of the Gulf Stream which can be found on
> the Libray of Congress web site via
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g9112g.ct000753
>
> Franklin's 1768 map can also be seen next to a modern map depicting the
> approximate flow of the Gulf current around the Florida peniinsula via
> the Library's "Places in The News" website:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/today/placesinthenews/
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> Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), one of America's founding fathers, is
> credited with the discovery of the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current
> which flows north from the Gulf of Mexico along the Atlantic coast of
> the United States, where it joins the Labrador Current and flows
> eastward. In 1768 Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger produced the
> first map depicting the Gulf Stream which was published the English firm
> of Mount and Page. The Library of Congress holds one of the three extant
> copies of this very rare map.
>
> Benjamin Franklin. [Franklin-Folger Chart of the Gulf Stream],1768.
> Printed map. G9112 .G8 1768 .F7 Vault). Geography and Map Division.
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g9112g.ct000753
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> Ed
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> Ed Redmond
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> Geography and Map Reference Specialist
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> Library of Congress
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