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Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
Joseph Nicollet died in 1843 in Washington D.C. after a long battle with illness. His tombstone reads "He will triumph who understands how to conciliate and combine with the greatest skill the benefits of the past and the demands of the future."
Jun 11, 2020 · Learn about Joseph Nicollet, a French-American explorer who mapped the upper Mississippi River and carved his name on a rock at the pipestone quarries in 1838. Meet the other men who accompanied him and their stories of adventure, science, and culture.
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Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (born July 24, 1786, Cluses, Savoy, France—died September 11, 1843, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a French mathematician and explorer. Nicollet showed promise in mathematics and astronomy early; he became a teacher of mathematics at the age of 19.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
French explorer, Joseph N. Nicollet, led expeditions in 1838 and 1839 with the backing of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers to explore the triangle of land bordered by Canada and the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He was assisted by John C. Frémont.
Drawing from documents associated with two government-sponsored expeditions conducted by French astronomer and cartographer Joseph Nicollet, this book contains an account of experiences on the Minnesota River in the summer of 1838.
The life and times of French natural scientist and cartographer Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (1786-1843) coincided with the Enlightenment and with the revolution of 1830. Both historical events figured prominently in Nicollet's Great Plains ethnohistorical narratives. As Withers and Livingstone (1999:4) posit in.
