In the history of exploration, Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest as Genevan cartographer (1690-1766).
Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest was born at Geneva in 1690. His recorded nationality is Republic of Geneva.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as physicist, cartographer and military engineer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest died in 1766, aged 76. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as physicist, cartographer and military engineer
