1707 - 1780
Born in Le Havre of a seafaring family d'Apres de
Mannevillette had a long and distinguished career as a navigator and
one of the first French hydrographers. After studying mathematics in
Paris, he gained early experience of the sea in a voyage at the age of
nineteen to the Caribbean.
During many subsequent voyages he assembled a
collection of material for a projected hydrographic atlas which, with
the support of the Academie des Sciences, was published in Paris in
1745 under the title Le Neptune Oriental.
In spite of the popularity of the first issue, it
failed to satisfy the author and he spent nearly thirty years, often
with the assistance of his friend, Alexander Dalrymple, the English
hydrographer, in the preparation of a revised and enlarged edition
which eventually was issued in 1775.
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