page_title: Philippe Buache
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe Buache
caption_attribution_description: 1753 world map by the French cartographer Philippe Buache
context_page_description: Philippe Buache was a French geographer, known for inventing a new system of geography and popularizing this field.
context_section_description: Philippe Buache (born La Neuville-au-Pont, 7 February 1700; died Paris, 24 January 1773) was a French geographer, known for inventing a new system of geography and popularizing this field.
caption: This 1753 map by Philippe Buache locates Fusang ("Fou-Sang des Chinois", "Fusang of the Chinese") north of the State of California.
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