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Bird's eye view of Tuileries Palace below a curtain style image of the sun and stars to illustrate Descartes theory of vortices in which the universe is filled with elements of different sizes which shift around each other, the center being the sun.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Manesson-Mallet, Allain, approximately 1630-approximately 1706 (Cartographer)
Format:	Map
Language:	French
Published:	[Frankfurt am Main] : [Johann Adam Jung], [1719]
Subjects:	Tuileries Palace (Paris, France) > Aerial views > Early works to 1800. Palaces > France > Paris > Aerial views > Early works to 1800. Cosmology > Maps > Early works to 1800. Descartes, René, > 1596-1650. Aerial views. Early maps.

Description
Summary:	Bird's eye view of Tuileries Palace below a curtain style image of the sun and stars to illustrate Descartes theory of vortices in which the universe is filled with elements of different sizes which shift around each other, the center being the sun.
Item Description:	Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises. Bd. 1. "Fig. 30"--Above image. Letters F and S on cosmology map, referred to in previous page, no index on sheet. The Cushing Library copy is part of the Ronald L. and V. Jane Woellhof Rare Map Collection.
Physical Description:	2 views on 1 sheet : hand colored ; image 15 x 11 cm