Artist: Mallet Alain Manesson ( - 1706 ) Paris; issued in: Paris; date: ca 1684 Alain Manesson Mallet (1630- 1706 ) was a French cartographer and engineer He started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XIV became a Sergeant-Major in the artillery and an Inspector of Fortifications He also served under the King of Portugal before returning to France and his appointment to the court of Louis XIV His military engineering and mathematical background led to his position teaching mathematics at court His major publications were Description de L'Univers (1683) in 5 volumes and Les Travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre (1684) in 3 volumes His Description de L'Universe contains a wide variety of information including star maps maps of the a, 1630
