Charles-François Beautemps-Bowsprit
Charles-François Beautemps-Bowsprit , born with the Neuville-with-Bridge the August 6th 1766 and died in Paris the March 16th 1854, is a hydrographic engineer and French cartographer, member of the Academy of Science and Bureau of longitudes. He is regarded as the father of the modern Hydrographie.
Biography
Initially employed as raises without treatment, under the orders of his/her cousin Jean-Nicolas Buache, hydrograph as a chief of the deposit of the Navy in 1783, Beautemps-Bowsprit was not long in showing exceptional qualities in the field of the Hydrographie. Become engineer as of 1785, he was the author of the charts of the Neptune of the Baltic , before embarking under the orders of Entrecasteaux as a first hydrographic engineer, to go in the search of Perugia (1791), which one had lost the trace since 1788.
In 1789 it was in charge of the statement of the coasts of Dunkirk.
From 1791 with 1796, Beautemps-Bowsprit thus benefitted from forwarding to carry out the surveys of the coasts of the visited countries. It is during this mission that it tried out new methods, in particular the circle with reflection of Jean-Charles of Bordered, and fixed the bases which made hydrography a true science and which were adopted soon by all the navy.
the Appendix with the voyage of Entrecasteaux , which contains the whole of work of Beautemps-Bowsprit going back to this time, had a considerable repercussion besides, at the time of its publication in 1808, because this one “ revolutionized the methods hydrographiques ” used formerly.
Returned to France in 1796, it was named in 1799 under-conservative of the deposit of the charts and plans of navy and proceeded starting from 1799 to the recognition of the Littoral of the French Empire. It was charged, under the Empire then under the Restauration, of the execution of all great work hydrographiques : those were worth to him to enter in 1810 to the Academy of Science. Its praise was read by Leonce Élie de Beaumont in 1859.
It was named in 1814 hydrographic engineer as a chief and directed 1814 to 1838 the drafting of the new charts of the coasts of France. With Beautemps-Bowsprit the era of the methodical coastal surveys started and, under its direction, the hydrographic service undertook a new complete survey of the coasts north and west of the France. the French Pilot (printed papers form in 1844 in 6 folio large atlases), testimony of twenty campaigns to the sea directed by Beautemps-Bowsprit, studies all the Western and septentrional coasts of France since Bayonne until Dunkirk. These documents do not contain less than 150 charts and plans, 279 sights and 184 tables high and low tides, forming a whole of 613 distinct work which is as many treasures for navigation. This work still makes the admiration of the maritime world and, according to the words of Frederic Chassériau “ will remain, the most beautiful title of contemporary hydrography to the eyes of the postérité ”.
The hydro-oceanographical Building industry
A ship of the hydrographic and oceanographical Service of the navy launched in 2002 bears its name.
External bond
- the Building industry Beautemps-Bowsprit Site of the National marine
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