Croisey, Jean-Baptiste
DELAFOSSE, Jean-Baptiste Introduction to geography. Maps of the various positions of the sphere, of the systems of the universe, of the planets and eclipses. &. Paris A. Basset before 1781 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.
