1755-1836 Jean Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy (A.K.A. Geoffroy L’islet) Cartographer

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Jean Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy (A.K.A. Geoffroy L’islet),  Cartographer Naturalist Explorer Meterologist

First meteorologist of the Indian Ocean

First person of African Descent to be elected to the Academy of Science of Paris

contributed to blackpast.org september 20, 2017 by:ROBERT FIKES, excerpt below:

"Pioneering cartographer and meteorologist Jean-Baptist Lislet-Geoffroy was born August 23, 1755 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, a French island colony in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and southern Africa…   In 1772, accompanying the French naturalist Philibert Commerson on an excursion to an erupting volcano at Piton Bert, Réunion, Lislet-Geoffroy, serving as a guide and herbalist, painted a watercolor of the scene that later found its way to Paris in the form of a book illustration that featured a miniature of him in the uniform of an engineer… (in 1787) sailed to Madagascar to map the Bay of Sainte Luce, Madagascar, north of Fort Dauphin, and wrote an account sent to Paris and partially published in Annales des voyages (Annals of the Voyages) of Malta-Brun. He labored to produce more precise maps of his region (i.e., Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles) which were invaluable to military and merchant vessels sailing in the Indian Ocean."

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