Italie Ancienne d'apres d'Anville
Reference: | CO-236 |
Author | Joseph Jerome de la LANDE |
Year: | 1802 |
Zone: | Italy |
Printed: | Paris |
Measures: | 240 x 305 mm |
Reference: | CO-236 |
Author | Joseph Jerome de la LANDE |
Year: | 1802 |
Zone: | Italy |
Printed: | Paris |
Measures: | 240 x 305 mm |
Description
Carta dell’Italia antica tratta dal Nouvelle geographie universelle. Descriptive, historique, industrielle et commerciale, des quatre parties du monde; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais par Fr. Noel. Les parties Astronom. et cosmograp. ont ete entierement revues et corriges par J. Lalande di Guthrie, William.
Incisa da Alexandre Blondeau, si basa sulla geografia di D’Anville.
Acquaforte, coloratura coeva dei contorni, in ottimo stato di conservazione.
Joseph Jerome de la LANDE (Bourg-en-Bresse 1732 – Parigi 1807)
In 1760 Lalande became professor of astronomy in the Collège de France, holding the post for 46 years, and in 1768 was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. He wrote
Histoire céleste française (French celestial history, 1801) contained a catalog of over 47,000 stars. During 1765-1766, he travelled in Italy. There he met the Pope and petitioned him to remove the writings of Copernicus and Galileo from the Index of prohibited works. He published an account in Voyage d'un français en Italie (1769) which ran to eight volumes.
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Joseph Jerome de la LANDE (Bourg-en-Bresse 1732 – Parigi 1807)
In 1760 Lalande became professor of astronomy in the Collège de France, holding the post for 46 years, and in 1768 was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. He wrote
Histoire céleste française (French celestial history, 1801) contained a catalog of over 47,000 stars. During 1765-1766, he travelled in Italy. There he met the Pope and petitioned him to remove the writings of Copernicus and Galileo from the Index of prohibited works. He published an account in Voyage d'un français en Italie (1769) which ran to eight volumes.
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