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Introduction à la géographie. Cartes des diverses positions de la sphère, des systhèmes de l'univers, des planètes des éclipses. &.
Paris, A. Basset, before 1781
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Plano, 51 x 73 cm (sm. marg. tear, toned).
Nice print by Jean-Baptiste Croisey, figuring a "Sphere Armillaire oblique", a "Globe celeste", a "Globe terrestre", schematic representations of the systems of Ptolomeus, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Descartes, etc. This document was printed before the discovering of Uranus in 1781 by William Herschel.
Ref. French, J. - Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. Herts, 1999, p. 350. - BnF.
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