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Tag Archives: 1802
Baudin in South Australia
In 1802, the French navigator Nicolas Baudin met his English counterpart Matthew Flinders off the coast of South Australia, in a place now called Encounter Bay. Both men were charting the coastline. Here is a part of Baudin’s chart, photographed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1802, Bernoulli, Descartes, Fermat, Matthew Flinders, Monge, Nicolas Baudin, South Australia
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