William S. Tribell
William Stephen Tribell( born August 15, 1977) is an American poet.
His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur S. Tell.
Many of his poems have been recorded, spoken word and with instrumentation, most notably by John Blyth Barrymore and Gary Burbank.
Paul Micou
Paul Micou( born 1959) is an American novelist.
Born in San Francisco, he grew up in Turkey, Iran, Washington D.C. and Connecticut.
After graduating from Harvard in 1981 he moved to Paris, then London.
He now lives in France with his wife and two sons.
His eighth novel was published in July 2008 by Random House.
Paul Micou's first novel" The Music Programme"( 1989) is a comic satire on the comfortable lifestyles of overpaid international development workers.
Set in a fictional African country called Timbali, the novel was published to favourable reviews.
The New York Times called it an excellent, accomplished example of satirical fiction and compared his comic talents to those of Evelyn Waugh and William Boyd.
This novel was composed as an opera by UK composer Roxanna Panufnik which premiered in 2000 at the Polish National Opera, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw.
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard (1813 Paris – 1880 Montigny-lès-Cormeilles) was a French historical, portrait and landscape painter.
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard (1813 Paris – 1880 Montigny-lès-Cormeilles) was a French historical, portrait and landscape painter.
Nicolas Auguste de La Baume
Nicolas Auguste de La Baume, marquis de Monterevel, was born in Paris 23 December 1645 and died in Paris 11 October 1716.
He was a French 17th and 18th century military commander, and Maréchal de France.
He was also known by the title maréchal de Montrevel.
Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier
Nicolas- Auguste Leisnier( 1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.
Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier
Nicolas- Auguste Leisnier( 1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.
Auguste Pomel
Nicolas Auguste Pomel( 20 September 1821 – 2 August 1898) was a French geologist, paleontologist and botanist.
He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils.
He was Senator of Algeria for Oran from 1876 to 1882.
Nicolas-Auguste Hesse
Nicolas- Auguste Hesse( 28 August 1795, Paris – 14 June 1869, Paris) was a French painter and artist.
He produced historical, mythological, religious and allegorical works along with portraits, wall paintings and designs for stained glass windows.
Nicolas Auguste Tissot
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (1824–1897) was a 19th-century French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections.
He devised Tissot's indicatrix, or "distortion circle", which when plotted on a map will appear as an ellipse whose elongation depends on the amount of distortion by the map at that point.
The angle and extent of the elongation represents the amount of angular distortion of the map.
The size of the ellipse indicates the amount that the area is distorted.
Born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, Tissot was trained as an engineer in the French Army, from which he graduated as "capitaine du génie".
In the early 1860s he became an instructor in geodesy at the well-reputed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Around the same time, he indulged a research program meant to determine the best way of cartographic projection for a particular region and presented his findings to the French Académie des Sciences.
In the eighteenth century, the German cartographer Johann H. Lambert had enunciated a mathematical theory of map projections and of the attendant characteristics of distortions that any given projection involved.
Carl Friedrich Gauss had also studied the subject before Tissot's contributions later in the nineteenth century.
Tissot's research in the mid-1850s on methods for finding good projections for particular regions led him to develop a projection that he saw as optimal.
While not quite equal-area or conformal, his projection resulted in “negligible distortion for a very small region.”
Subsequently, his optimal projection was adopted by the geographic service of the French Army.
While his first concepts regarding cartographic distortions developed in mid-century, it was only with the publication of "Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes géographiques" in 1881 that the Tissot’s Indicatrix became popular.
In the book, Tissot argued for his method, reportedly demonstrating that “whatever the system of transformation, there is at each point on the spherical surface at least one pair of orthogonal directions which will also be orthogonal on the projection.”
Tissot employed a graphical device he called the "ellipse indicatrice" or "distortion circle".
When plotted on a map it reveals the amount of distortion by the map at the particular point where the ellipse is plotted.
He suggested that the angle and extent of the elongation of the distortion circle represented the amount of angular distortion of the map, while the size of the ellipse corresponded to the amount of distortion in area.
In a nineteenth-century cartographic context, in which professionals looked for ways to apply mathematical principles to the science of mapping and the map projection, Tissot’s theory was favorably received, at least in continental Europe.
Even in the more restrained Anglo-American academic world, a columnist of "Science", a publication sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, hailed Tissot's method and encouraged his readers to study Tissot’s work in the hope that such a study “will lead to the adoption of better projections than those which are at present in use.”
The legacy of Tissot’s method is still vivid today, as suggested by the authors of "Map Projections for Europe", who argue that since Tissot’s famous analysis regarding distortion, the only major scientific development in the metric interpretation of deformation has been Eduard Imhof's "Verzerrungsgitter", or "deformation grid".

Question: Did Nicolas Auguste Tissot and Paul Micou share the same nationality?
Answer: no