Guillaume Brouscon was a Breton

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of the Dieppe school in the 16th century. He was from the port of Le Conquet, near Brest,''Tides: a scientific history'' David Edgar Cartwright p.18
/ref> which is shown prominently in large red lettering on his 1543 map of the world. On his 1543 map of the world, the northern part of the promontory of the ''TERRE OSTRALE'' (Australe) is called ''terre de Lucac'' (the Land of Locach), and is separated from '' La Iave grande'' and '' Iave'' by the ''R. grande.'' That is, Brouscon, like Mercator, identified

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's '' Regio Patalis'' not with Java Major but with Locach. Robert J. King, "Finding Marco Polo's Locach", ''Terrae Incognitae,'' vol.50, no.1, April 2018, pp.1-18, p.8. He published his Brouscon's

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hs in 1546, which were used for their information on

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by English, French and Breton sailors. They allowed to known the direction of tidal currents, and to calculate tide level depending on the phase of the

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{{Authority control 16th-century French cartographers 16th-century Breton people People from the Province of Brittany