Alexander Dalrymple
See also: Dalrymple
Alexander Dalrymple is a Scottish geographer , born the July 24th 1737 with Edinburgh and dead the June 19th 1808.
He is the brother of the Scottish jurisconsult, David Dalrymple (1726-1792).
He enters early to the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. He makes several explorations in the archipelago indonésien, several voyages intended to carry out cartographic statements of the coasts. The Company names it hydrographic. Its observations contributed to the success of the first voyage around the world by James Cook.
It makes appear in 1767 and 1768 two books on its observations in the Pacific Ocean. It evokes there the existence of a large continent, still unknown, in the Pacific. In 1769, it makes appear a plan to extend the trade of the Great Britain in this area.
It compiles and translates accounts of voyages of Spanish navigators into 1770, compilation which will be represented, in shortened version, in 1774 in French by Anne-François-Joachim Fréville. This work of collection of the Voyages made in the Pacific Ocean is famous among its contemporaries.
One owes him also a description of the Malabar Coasts, Coromandel, etc , 1806.
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