Edme-François Jomard is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Edme-François Jomard as French cartographer, engineer and archaeologist (1777–1862).
Edme-François Jomard was born at Versailles in 1777. His recorded nationality is France.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as archaeologist, anthropologist and egyptologist.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Edme-François Jomard died in 1862, aged 85. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Recorded as archaeologist, anthropologist and Egyptologist
