"Description De L’Univers…" title-page engraving
| Author: | Alain Mallet (1630–1706) |
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706) was a French cartographer and an engineer. His major works, a five-volume Description de L‘Univers (1683) and a three-volume Les travaux de Mars ou l‘Art de la guerre (1684), despite having rather primitive maps, contain a broad variety of information: star maps, descriptions of customs, religions and governments of many nations, portraits of rulers and pictures of historical events. M. Mallet himself drew most of the figures that were engraved for that book.
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706) was a French cartographer and an engineer. His major works, a five-volume Description de L‘Univers (1683) and a three-volume Les travaux de Mars ou l‘Art de la guerre (1684), despite having rather primitive maps, contain a broad variety of information: star maps, descriptions of customs, religions and governments of many nations, portraits of rulers and pictures of historical events. M. Mallet himself drew most of the figures that were engraved for that book.
